Exercise 1: Analysis of Experimental Intervention
Dopfner, Breuer, Schurmann, Mettrnicht, Rademacher, and Lehmkuhl (2004) conducted an analysis of an experimental intervention to test the effectiveness of an adaptive multimodal treatment in children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria included age, diagnosis, length of participation in treatment, type of treatment, and other key variables. Randomization was employed in a fixed design to compensate for excluding patients who did not wish to be fully randomized and for whom specific treatment requirements were viewed as mandatory. Subjects were recruited based upon their participation in either behavior therapy or drug treatment after an initial psychoeducation program.
A total of 26 percent received a combined drug and pharmaceutical treatment in later treatment stages. For 82 percent, behavior therapy was added. Dopfner, et al, (2004) stated that the study was limited in that it did not consider therapeutic interventions other than behavior therapy and pharmaceutical interventions. It was further limited in that it appears to be most effective when interventions are individually modified or tailored to meet the needs of clients. Consequently, this approach may not necessarily be effective among the larger population.
The ethnographic study selected for this analysis was conducted by Magrini (2006) and was focused on the development of ethnographic intertextual voicing, which describes multiple contexts and the ways in which they influence representation of participants and create a community of learning. A total of 25 children ages 5 through 11 participated in the study, which examined children's interpretations of biblical meal stories, Eucharistic experiences, and reflections on daily meal practices.
A series of learning sessions with the children, focus groups with
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