Analysis of an Interview

Assignment 2: Analysis of Interview (200 points):

Your second writing assignment, an Analysis of an Interview of a Domestic Violence Practice Agency is due on Sunday of Week 7.

You are to contact and conduct an interview of a community based domestic violence practitioner:

The selected practitioner may be a worker at a public agency such as Child Welfare Services, Probation or local law enforcement; or the selected practitioner may be from a community based organization such as a domestic violence shelter, counseling center or a medical facility.

If you are on military assignment, you will locate instructions defining domestic violence practitioners available on deployment, in the Course Information section.

The selected practitioner may focus on victims or perpetrators of violence.

You are to visit the agency, interview the practitioner, and collect the following information:

The agency’s mission statement, client population, services provided, and whether it is public, non-profit or for-profit.
The different program components or services provided by the agency.
The role and experience of the practitioner, i.e. what are the practitioner’s job duties, what type of academic and agency training the practitioner has gone through, legal/ethical considerations/limitations the practitioner must work with a discussion of any personal/professional impacts the worker is experiencing stemming from working in domestic violence

You are to write a ten page, APA formatted analysis of the interview:

The paper will summarize and describe the different information collected.

The paper will include an analysis of the information collected, the analysis must include at least eight different citations -these may be the text book plus seven peer reviewed readings; discuss how the different information collected is reflected in the readings; please refer to the Course Information section for information on locating journal articles that you can apply to your discussion of the interview.

Please refer to the following items for information on writing tips that may help you.

They are the same tips you used for the literature review.

APA Guidelines:

The Purdue Online Writing Lab provides up to date instructions in the application of APA guidelines, you can locate the writing lab at:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/13/

Location of scholarly articles

You can locate peer reviewed articles, associated with each chapter of your text book at the following open-access Student Study Site, this site contains a broad range of journal articles on the topic of domestic violence, available free of charge to the internet user: http://www.sagepub.com/buzawa4e/

You can also conduct library based research through Leather by Libraries, which is part of the Chapman University system: http://www1.chapman.edu/library/

If you are on military deployment, for all branches:

Your First Sergeant is the first contact in a domestic violence situation, you can also contact the Family Advocate, either of roles will be informed as to the management of domestic violence issues.

There is also a broad range of domestic violence First Responders defined by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) at the U.S. Department of Defense; SAPRO is responsible for oversight of the Department’s sexual assault policy and works hand-in-hand with the Services and the civilian community to develop and implement prevention and response programs, the website is:

http://www.sapr.mil

You can locate the U.S. Department of Defense’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Program Procedures here:

http://www.sapr.mil/media/pdf/directives/649502p.pdf