1)An emerging area of research ethics is social costs

1)An emerging area of research ethics is social costs. Comment on: (a) ethical issues involved in research that may be damaging to particular groups of people (e.g., based on ethnicity, gender, etc.); (b) the risks of excessive regulation of research stifling scientific creativity and spontaneity

2)Apply program evaluation concepts to an intervention related to your research interests. For example, what would your research look like if it were to be implemented in real?world, community agency settings? What would the aims and objectives of the intervention be? What is the target population? How might you assess the level of need?

3)Cost?effectiveness and cost–benefit methods have also been controversial. Do you think that it is possible to properly attach monetary values to psychological distress costs or treatment benefits? Assuming that we could do it, should we?