Pt1420 Unit 2

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1. What search terms did you use to locate this research study to analyze? What database did you use? What was your rationale for selecting this particular study to analyze over others identified in this search results? What is the full reference for the study?

The search terms I used were case study, African American, prison and school to prison pipeline, Latino, mental health, welfare. The database was ScienceDirect. I chose this article because this study included African Americans, Latino as well as Caucasian children in the welfare system.
Garcia, A. R., Greeson, J. K., Kim, M., Thompson, A., & DeNard, C. (2015). From placement to prison revisited: Do mental health services disrupt the delinquency pipeline among Latino, African American and …show more content…
4. What were the sources of the data collected? For example, who were the participants? What was the sample? What sites for research data collection were used? And/or what documents were studied?
Data was collected from a national sample of adolescent African American, Caucasian, and Latino foster youth. The investigation was guided by three research questions: (1) To what extent do demographic factors, child welfare characteristics, SEB problems, mental health service use, and environmental context influence delinquent outcomes? (2) To what extent does race/ethnicity moderate the relationship between SEB problems and delinquent outcomes, controlling for demographic factors, child welfare characteristics, and environmental context? (3) To what extent does race/ethnicity moderate the relationship between mental health service use and delinquent outcomes, controlling for demographic factors, child welfare characteristics, and environmental context? (Garcia, Greeson, Kim, Thompson, DeNard, 2015)
5. What procedures were used to actually collect the
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