Re: Question about ethics issue in researching abuse

[Susan Wilde <susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think there are two issues at stake, methodological considerations 
and ethical  protection of the research participants.

Although the practical difficulty of finding more subjects who are 
adult survivors of MBP looms large for a graduate student, perhaps 
expanding the methodology to a phenomenology or grounded theory 
study, with more research participants so as to saturate the data 
might solve both difficulties.  Then the information analyzed in the 
dissertation becomes about the patterns of meaning or relationship 
between codes and less about the demographics or other identifying 
characteristics of the participants, and more meaningful results can 
also be examined.

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Susan Wilde, Psy.D.