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PSYC101 Worksheet Total Points possible: 90 Place your first and last name, student ID and the date of your worksheet completion in the spaces below. Student Name: Student ID: Date: This worksheet is due by 11:55pm ET Sunday at the end of Week 6 of the course term You may work on it ahead of its deadline but may not submit it prior to its assigned week. OVERVIEW: This worksheet requires unpacking the key elements of a published scholarly journal article and demonstrating APA source citation skills, activities you will engage in frequently in the completion of a variety of assignments including essays, research papers and literature reviews in future courses. To complete the worksheet, download and save a copy of it with your first and last name in the document title, answer the questions and attach your completed copy. Quoting is not permitted. All answers must be written as paraphrases, meaning that you must restate what you read in your own words, with the exception of technical terms such as the names of diagnostic tests. You are not required to source credit the article in your answers to the Section I “Key Article Components” questions. Section II, “Source citing and reference listing in APA format” is where you will demonstrate knowledge of how to correctly format source crediting in APA style.

Answers will be graded for accuracy, thoroughness, clarity and correct spelling and grammar. No content of this document may be removed or reordered. Answers must be inserted in the spaces provided.

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SECTION I: KEY ARTICLE COMPONENTS Points possible: 70 (10 points per item)

1. Previous research and authors’ rationales for conducting their study

The past research was by Grubaugh, Zinzow, Paul, Egede, & Frueh that was done in 2011, which was necessitated by need to know prevalence, correlates, and treatment of PTSD in the general population. It was meant also to give an insight into PTSD within the context of severe mental illness. The other research was by Kessler, Sonnega, Bromet, Hughes, & Nelson research done in 1995. The purpose of this study was also to show prevalence and persistence of the disease. It was also used to estimate the probabilities of PTSD from different types of trauma. It was also meant to show if Posttraumatic stress disorder was in any way comorbid with other lifetime DSM-III-R disorders. 2. Research method used

The research method used was a case study, this method was perfect fit for this nature of study because it relate clearly with daily experience and have a 'human face'. The other advantage of case study is that it offers the opportunity for the researcher to broker diverse viewpoints. It too allow for the immediate accumulation of data.

2. Participants involved in the study

The participants in this study were individuals with SMI who were receiving treatment at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-University Behavioral HealthCare (UMDNJ-UBHC). It was the state of New Jersey that defines clients with SMI. In order to qualify one had to have suffered in the past 3-6 months major malfunction caused by mental disorder in the past 2 years prior to that having received serious diagnosis. New Jersey’s three different cities in northern and central part were chosen for the study. Thorough screening of trauma and PTSD symptoms were done at these sites to choose clients eligible for the study. There were no payments made for participating in the screening.

4. Measures used

The measures used were a Traumatic Events Reported on Abbreviated Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (TLEQ) by Gender. This was to enable proper capturing of the history of all the truma clients. TLEQ was structured such that it ask about the experience of traumatic happenings by applying wording that resembles DSM-IV criterion A for PTSD.

5. Data analyses the data analysis used were; descriptive statistics and regression analysis method were used.

6. Study results sudden death of loved one was the most traumatizing event a trend the was similar across gender. Childhood abuse together with car accidents was the other traumatizing events. Men reported combat and other accidents more than women. The results also show that women are more vulnerable to sexual abuse, domestic violence and adult sexual abuse as compared to men. Average total events had a sample mean of 7.43 with standard deviation of 3.47, with mean of 7.18 and standard deviation of 3.33 for men and women having a mean of 7.57, and a standard deviation of 3.55.

Children most traumatizing events ranked as follows; sexual abuse, death of loved ones. Women traumatizing event ranked as follows; childhood sexual abuse, 27%, sudden death of loved one at 19% and domestic violence rank low at 9%. Men rank as follows; sudden death of loved one, 21%, childhood sexual abuse, 13%, and robbery 10%. 7. Discussion this study was to show the severity of trauma in relation to PTSD, the sample shows the severity of exposure to traumatic events in correlation with PTSD symptoms. Childhood sexual abuse is the most traumatizing event that across gender and age. Sudden death of loved one was also traumatizing but not as much as sexual abuse. Men experience differs with men, whereby men are vulnerable to attacks and robbery while women suffer more from domestic related violence. However trauma that was identified as most distressing was not in any way related to PTSD symptom severity.

, the number of types traumatic events experienced was in line with previous research showing that cumulative trauma exposure is related to PTSD diagnosis in people with SMI (Mueser et al., 1998). Of particular note, clients with SMI reported experiencing PTSD symptoms related to events that had occurred on average almost 20 years earlier. These findings highlight the need to routinely assess trauma exposure, and to address the prolonged effects of trauma and loss throughout the lifespan of individuals with SMI. SECTION II SOURCE CITING AND REFERENCE LISTING IN APA FORMAT Points Possible: 20 (10 points per item) Tip: If needed, examples of how to source credit in APA formatting style can be found in the Online Writing Lab, located at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ The authors of the article are: Weili Lu, Philip T. Yanos, Steven M. Silverstein, Kim T. Mueser, Stanley D. Rosenberg, Jennifer D. Gottlieb, Stephanie Marcello Duva, Thanuja Kularatne, Stephanie Dove-Williams, Danielle Paterno, Danielle Hawthorne, and Giovanna Giacobbe. The article’s title is: Public Mental Health Clients with Severe Mental Illness and Probable Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Trauma Exposure and Correlates of Symptom Severity The article was published in Volume 26, on pages 266-273, of the scholarly journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress The article’s year date of publication was: 2013 1. Giving credit to published authors with in-text source citing Which specific parts of the information above would you use for APA format source citing of the article in-text (meaning a citation that occurs within the body of one’s writing)? After answering the above question, show in the space below how you would format an in-text citation of the article to be in compliance with APA formatting rules. 2. Giving credit to published authors with a Reference listing Which parts of the information provided would you use for listing the article in an APA format reference list (a list attached to the end of one’s writing, under the heading “References” that shows one or more publications used)? After answering the above question, show in the space below, under the heading References, how you would reference list the information in compliance with APA style rules as a reference (an article listing that would be attached to the end of one’s writing if one were using the article .

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