Naslov
Ethical aspects of mental health research with socially vulnerable groups of parents and children after major natural disasters: How to achieve an empowering effect on research participants

Autori
Ajduković, Marina ; Rezo Bagarić, Ines ; Keresteš, Gordana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
IFSW EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK 2021 / - , 2021, 1-1

Skup
IFSW EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK 2021 Social Work in Europe Meeting New Challenges

Mjesto i datum
Online konferencija, 11.10.2021. - 13.10.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
mental health, trauma, action research, empowerment of research participants

Sažetak
Research project Intergenerational risk transmission for adolescent mental health, funded by Croatian Science Foundation, has several key research questions: 1) To investigate the long- term association between parents' adverse life events and war experiences and their current mental health and parenting characteristics ; 2) To determine the relationship between parents' mental health and the mental health of their children ; 3) To determine the contribution of protective factors for the children mental health. An explanatory sequential research design will be used in this study, which will be based on a combined approach. The study will begin with the collection and analysis of quantitative survey data and will follow with the implementation of the epigenetic and qualitative study. The research participants are adolescents aged 15 and their parents from the area of three counties, which according to numerous indicators are economically deprived areas of Croatia. Given that data on previous traumatic experiences and current life stressors are collected as part of parental mental health predictors, the fact that the research is conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic and after the earthquake is an additional ethical challenge for the research team. On the one hand, we have a rare opportunity to investigate the relationship between previous adverse life experiences with coping with the current high level of stress, associated with COVID-19 and the trauma effects due to earthquakes experience and life in economic deprived communities further impoverished by the earthquake. On the other hand, we also have responsibility to our participants coming from vulnerable backgrounds. We will present additional ethical strategies for caring for research participants, including workshop-type psychological relief after each phase of the research for adolescents, availability of mobile services for psychological support to adolescents and their parents, psychoeducational workshops for professional associates in schools where research is conducted, and liaison with social services care and civil society organizations in order to alleviate material hardships. In this way, classical scientific research grows into action research with added value of the empowerment of participants and the community in which they live.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija, Socijalne djelatnosti

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