Student Affliates > Megan Greeson

My broad research interest is the spectrum of violence against women, particularly sexual assault and intimate partner violence. More specifically, I am interested in how individuals, organizations, and communities address and respond to violence against women in our society.

Research and Consulting Experience

Project Director

Adolescent Sexual Assault Victims' Experiences with SANE-SARTs and the Criminal Justice System, National Institute of Justice, Dr. Rebecca Campbell, P. I.

Research Assistant

A Systems Change Analysis of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs: Identifying the Mediating Mechanisms of Criminal Justice System Impact, National Institute of Justice, Dr. Rebecca Campbell, P. I.

Research Assistant/Evaluation Consultant

National Evaluation of the Department of Defense Domestic (DoD) Abuse Victim Advocacy Pilot Project, U.S. Department of Defense, with Dr. Cris Sullivan.

Research Assistant

The Development of the Scale of Economic Abuse, Master's Thesis by Adrienne Adams.

Senior Honors Thesis

The Relationship between Economic Abuse and Depression for Domestic Abuse Survivors

Student Editor

American Journal of Evaluation

Community Involvement

Practicum

I am working with a community to facilitate the development of a county-wide protocol for the medical and criminal justice system response to sexual assault.

Medical Advocate/Crisis Intervention Counselor

Michigan State University Sexual Assault Program

Publications

Patterson, D., Greeson, M. R., & Campbell, R. (provisionally accepted).

Protect thyself: Understanding rape survivors' decisions not to seek help from social systems. Submitted to Health & Social Work.

Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., Sullivan, C. M., & Greeson, M. R. (in press).

The Effects of Community and Family Violence Exposure on Anxiety Trajectories during Middle Childhood: The Role of Family Social Support as a Moderator. Submitted to Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

Adams, A.E., Sullivan, C.M., Bybee, D.I., and Greeson, M. (2008).

Development of the Scale of Economic Abuse. Violence Against Women, 14, 563-588.

Campbell, R., Greeson, M. R., Bybee, D., & Raja, S. (2008).

The co-occurrence of childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and sexual harassment: a mediational model of PTSD and physical health outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 194-207.

Conference Presentations

Campbell, R., Greeson, M., Bybee, D., & Raja, S. (2008, November).

The health impact of lifetime trauma and violence in a diverse sample of female veterans.

Symposium accepted by the Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Chicago, IL.

Adams, A., Greeson, M., Campbell, R., Sullivan, C. M., & Patterson, D. (2008, November).

Strategies for Conducting Evaluation with Hard-to-Find, Traumatized, and Vulnerable Populations.

Roundtable presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Denver, CO.

Sprague, H., Greeson, M. R., Cabral, G., Droege, E., & Campbell, C. (2007, June).

First-year practicum in community psychology: Graduate student perspectives.

Town Hall presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, Pasadena, CA.

Patterson, D. & Campbell, R., Lichty, L.F., Adams, A.E. & Greeson, M. (2005, September).

Planning and implementing program evaluation for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs.

International Forensic Nursing Scientific Assembly, Arlington, Virginia.

Adams, A.E., Greeson, M., and Sullivan, C.M. (2005, July).

The Development of the Scale of Economic Abuse.

Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, Champaign, IL.

Technical Reports & Manuals

Greeson, M. R., Campbell, R., Kobes, S. K. E. (2008).

A Step-by-Step Practitioner Toolkit for Evaluating the Work of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Programs in the Criminal Justice System.

National Institute of Justice Award 2005-WG-BX-0003, Dr. Rebecca Campbell, P. I.

Adams, A. E. & Greeson, M. (2006).

Economic Abuse in the Lives of Women with Abusive Partners: Report for Domestic Violence Service Providers.

East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University.

Sullivan, C. M., Adams, A. E., Erwin, P. E., Greeson, M., and Valenti, M. (2005).

Evaluation of the Department of Defense Domestic Abuse Victim Advocacy Pilot

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Defense's Family Violence Policy Office.