A Trauma-Informed Approach to Sexual Violence Research Ethics and Open Science

The practice of ethics in social science research is a reflexive process of self-review to define a profession’s collective responsibility in the face of changing norms and expectations. In recent years, we have seen transformative changes in how society thinks about supporting sexual assault surviv...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of interpersonal violence Jg. 34; H. 23-24; S. 4765 - 4793
Hauptverfasser: Campbell, Rebecca, Goodman-Williams, Rachael, Javorka, McKenzie
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.12.2019
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Schlagworte:
Assaults
Collective responsibility
Confidentiality
Consciousness
Data collection
Dissemination
Empowerment
Ethics
Medical ethics
Open access
Privacy
Professional practice
Recruitment
Reflexivity
Research ethics
Review boards
Safety regulations
Science
Scientific community
Sex crimes
Sexual Abuse
Sexual violence
Social research
Social Science Research
Social sciences
Survivor
Transparency
Trauma
Victims
Well being
reporting/disclosure
sexual assault
support seeking
ISSN:0886-2605, 1552-6518, 1552-6518
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Zusammenfassung:The practice of ethics in social science research is a reflexive process of self-review to define a profession’s collective responsibility in the face of changing norms and expectations. In recent years, we have seen transformative changes in how society thinks about supporting sexual assault survivors, and how the scientific community thinks about our obligations to society. Decades of research on trauma and its impact has raised awareness about the needs of victimized individuals, giving rise to the trauma-informed practice movement, which emphasizes that service providers must center survivors’ well-being in all interactions, decisions, and program practices. The field of sexual assault research helped give rise to this movement and provides empirical support for its guiding tenets, and in this article, we explore how to bring these ideas full circle to begin articulating trauma-informed principles for research. A trauma-informed perspective on research challenges scientists to go beyond the requirements of the Belmont Report (1979) and institutional review boards' (IRB) regulations to develop research procedures that fully support survivors’ choice, control, and empowerment. Such reflection on participants’ rights is particularly important given the open science movement sweeping academia, which calls on scientists to share their data publicly to promote transparency, replication, and new discoveries. Disseminating data could pose significant safety, privacy, and confidentiality risks for victims of sexual assault, so we need to evaluate what open science means within a trauma-informed framework. In this article, we examine three key stages of the research process—participant recruitment, data collection, and dissemination—and consider how trauma-informed principles could help, but also could complicate, research practices. We explore these tensions and offer potential solutions so that research on sexual trauma embodies trauma-informed practice.
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ISSN:0886-2605
1552-6518
1552-6518
DOI:10.1177/0886260519871530