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Journal Article 6.1: Huibregtse, B., Bornovalova, M., Hicks, B., Mcgue, M., & Iacono, W. (2011). Testing the Role of Adolescent Sexual Initiation in Later-Life Sexual Risk Behavior: A Longitudinal Twin Design. Psychological Science, 22(7), 924–933.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. What is longitudinal research?
2. What are the various analytical issues and approaches that are unique to longitudinal research?
3. Is there a minimum number of repeated measures for a longitudinal design?
4. Describe why the researchers chose to use twins for this research. What did it help? How did it make the research more difficult to conduct?

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Journal Article 6.2: Longhofer, J., & Floersch, J. (2012). The Coming Crisis in Social Work: Some Thoughts on Social Work and Science. Research on Social Work Practice, 22(5), 499–519.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. In what ways does the author find social work practice and research methods to be at large?
2. For what does the author advocate in this article?
3. Provide an example outlining an experience in practice that was not substantially enough based in empirical methods and/or reason.
4. How does one utilize empirical thought processes to govern one’s work in a field governed by qualitative experiences?