Posted: February 28th, 2017

If you were conducting research on a psychologically sensitive topic, what steps might you need to follow to ensure that no psychological harm was occurring?

In considering past research, it is sometimes easier to see when physical harms are occurring as opposed to psychological harms.  If you were conducting research on a psychologically sensitive topic, what steps might you need to follow to ensure that no psychological harm was occurring? In other words, how do you know if psychological harm is occurring during a research study? If you were to discover the occurrence of psychological harm, what would be your next steps as a researcher?