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Evaluating Research Articles

Credibility of a research articles is a critical subject. In most cases, researchers publish findings which are supported by statistical analysis and correlation to related research works. It is thus important for a reader to be able to evaluate research credibility if information in the research is to be relied on. This assignment briefly evaluates two articles about professional collaboration and how they relate to a specific area of interest.

The two articles are:

100. Haight, W. L., Bidwell, L.N., Marshall, J.M., & Khatiwoda, P. (2014). Implementing the Crossover Youth Practice Model in diverse contexts: Child welfare and juvenile justice professionals’ experiences of multisystem collaborations. Children and Youth Service Review, 3991-100. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.02.001

10. Rosado, L. M., & Scali, M. A. (2016). Training mental health and juvenile justice professionals in juvenile screening, assessment, and evaluation. In, APA handbook of psychology and juvenile justice (pp. 675-691). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/14643-030

The first article explores the opportunity to scrutinize structural and psychosocial processes of multisystem collaboration of professionals who focus on bringing change in practice with crossover youth (Haight et al., 2014).). The evidences of this research were responses of professionals from multisystem collaboration and other participants in the interviews. Secondly, the study relied on comparative case analyses from five counties of Midwestern State and established a variation from county to county and thus how the professional can approach problems facing youth in the juvenile justice system.

The second article by Rosado and Scali, (2016) delves into the need of training all the mental health and juvenile justice professional so that the existing gaps can be sealed. The article highlights the knowledge gaps of the judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and probation officers with regards to adolescent development and psychology, and thus not well equipped on matters of culpability, amenability to rehabilitation, suitable treatment planning treatment. It also highlights the knowledge gaps of the forensic psychologists and psychiatrists on specific legal questions on which they are often required to opine (Rosado & Scali, 2016).

The two articles thus present an opportunity which is not only suitable, but also urgent when it comes to dealing with youths in the juvenile justice system. There are gaps of knowledge, training, and experience which need to be harmonized. Management of juvenile justice system is not only a matter of justice, but youth development and psychology (Rosado & Scali, 2016). It is thus more delicate because as much as there is need to correct and rehabilitate the youth, there is even more need to create a conducive environment in which their physical, emotional, mental and psychological development can be harmonized and optimized. This explains why different calibers of professional are needed, including, prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys and probation officers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and educational instructors for constructive management of the youths in the juvenile justice system.

A scrutiny of the two articles expose vastly and accurately the necessity of professional collaboration. In as much as the second is proposing a training of professional in all essential matters pertaining to their profession, in some instances, it is only suitable that professionals can collaborate (Lawson, 2004). For examples, prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys and probation officers cannot be trained on everything about development and psychology of the adolescents; otherwise they would become a sort of psychiatrists and psychologists. The same way, psychologist and psychiatrists cannot be trained fully to become, prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys or probation officers, they would otherwise be the same people. The trainings are as good and enabling the professionals understand when they need each other. The articles emphasize the need for professional collaboration in delivery of human services because of the diversity and complexity of human needs and wants.

I find the articles insightful and eye opening on matters of delivering human services. I, therefore, purpose to learn the basics about human services associated with my area of interest while at the same time embracing the need for professional collaboration in times of need. I will, therefore, create room for learning as well as room for welcoming professional inputs of people who can help me optimize my human service delivery.

Professional collaboration is one of the best approaches of optimizing human service delivery. Human needs, wants, problems and challenges are very diverse and complicated and, therefore, call for a chain of professionals to manage.