Allen University Bullying Prevention Programs Research Paper

The purpose of Research Assignment #1 is to describe a research project you are interested in conducting that involves human subjects and to create an informed consent document that will be administered to subjects when they enroll in the research. The informed consent document should include:

1) the purpose of the study;  

2) its procedures; 

3) potential risks to participants; 

4) potential benefits to participants; 

5) compensation to participants; 

6) confidentiality procedures; and 

7) participants’ right to quit the study. This hypothetical project may be based or build upon studies that have been recently conducted (ideally published within the last five years, although research published within the last ten years is acceptable). 

The study could be an evaluation of an intervention to attempt adducted persons to stop using drugs and/ or committing crime Examples include:  

-Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of America (BBBSA); 

-Operation Ceasefire; 

-Bullying Prevention Programs; 

-Blueprints for Violence Prevention; 

-Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.);

-Law Enforcement Education (LRE);

-Community Policing; 

-Police Crackdowns;  

-Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT); 

-Adult Drug Court;

-Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A. R.E.); 

-Bullying Prevention;

-Motivational Enhancement; 

-Juvenile Drug Court;

-Therapeutic Community

-Drug-Free Outpatient Programs; 

-Methadone Maintenance; 

-Halfway Houses; 

-Naltrexone; 

-Medical Marijuana;  

-Buprenorphine;

-Multisystemic Therapy (MST); 

-Project Toward No Drug Abuse (Project TND); 

-Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS)

-House Arrest-Remote Location Monitoringor.

any intervention not listed here that you find worth studying).

Research subjects can be adults or youth (persons under 18 years of age).