Week Three, Find a Book

Cohn, F., Salmon, M., And Stobo, J. (2002). Confronting Chronic Neglect. The Education And Training Of Health Professionals On Family Violence. Institute Of Medicine. National Academy Press. Washington, Dc. Retrieved from http://www.nap.edu/read/10127/chapter/1

I found this assignment very helpful. I knew how to use the Brandman library for finding journal articles, but I was not too familiar with finding e-books. The library was down at the time I did my assignment, though. I ended up using an e-book library that was mentioned in our book. National Academies Press has a good selection of e-books for multi-disciplinary fields. I found some good statistical information on my topic, and also some symptoms that I was trying to find out about. One problem I faced was that my keywords were to narrow to find results so I actually had to broaden it and find different ways to word it before I finally found some success in locating a book. I am hoping to be able to find some case studies of children who were exposed to domestic violence. The problem with that is, since it is psychology and mental health stuff, it will probably be hard to find it due to confidentiality. I also learned that I had messed up the format of my last paper, so I was glad I was shown what I was doing wrong while in class, before I messed up my second assignment. So far, this class has taught me a lot of information that would have really come in handy for my capstone class I took at the beginning of the year this year. I really wish I had learned about some of these things prior to that class, for sure.