Help with college graduate work

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First aof all greetings to you and your wonderful community!

OK, I'm writing my gradauate work about biases and different views psychologists have towards different patients. My mentor and I have decided to make use of PTSD to investigate this - the logic being that psychologists that work with PTSD patients would see them in a different light than those that work with say battered women.

We decided to make vignettes that describe a household situation between a PTSD patient and his family. It would describe a situation where the woman was abused by her husband. When presented to a psychologist that works with PTSD patient he would not condemn the husband because he is very well aware of his problems. I'm not saying that he would tolerate the act but at least he would ''understand'' it. On the other hand when this same story is presented to a psychologist that deals with family violence, battered women etc. he would ''take'' the wife's side, be more understanding of her problems and see it from her perspective. Of course, I have yet to write such a vignette so I turn to you for help.

1. I have access to ebscohost and ERIC, could you please tell me under which keywords to find relevant literature? Or do you know of any papers published that adress this topic? I don't need an exact match, just a similar paper so I can compare it with mine?

2. Do you have ideas to enrich my research? Any and all help / thoughts/ objections would be great :thumbsup:

Thanks in advance

Domagoj