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Shannon Kobes
MA Cognitive and Social Psychology Program:
Ecological-Community Psychology

Student Affliates > Shannon Kobes

My primary interest lies in the program development and evaluation of formal and informal systems response to sexual assault, namely coordinated community responses, violence prevention and intervention policy, and secondary victimization.

Research and Consulting Experience
Project Coordination
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.
Evaluation
National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), 2007 Co-evaluator of the utility of The National Sexual Assault Response Team Toolkit (SART Toolkit) in pilot communities nationwide.
Consulting
  • Capital Area Sexual Assault Team (CASART), Lansing, MI, 2006-current
  • Hoosier State Press Association, Muncie, IN, 2004
  • Vice President of Academic Affairs and the Academic Quality Board, Wayne, NE, 2001
Graduate Assistant
  • Psychology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 2005-2006
  • Psychological Sciences, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2004-2005
  • Contracts & Grants, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 2003-2004
Master’s Thesis
Analysis of Victim and Perpetrator Blame in Fictional Police Sexual Assault Reports, Ball State University
Community involvement

I am currently participating and assisting in the development of the Capital Area Sexual Assault Response Team (CASART). I work with law enforcement, individuals from the criminal justice system, sexual assault nurse examiners, and advocates in the Lansing area to improve the community services and responses to sexual assault. I have taken an active role in the development of CASART's policies and procedures, as well as the development of tools to evaluate the coordinated response and participation in sexual assault prevention efforts and violence against women community awareness efforts.

Publications
Campbell, R., Kobes, S.K.E., & Chao, M.Ê (in press).
Sexual assault response teams.Ê In C. Renzetti & J. Edleson (Eds). Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence.Ê Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Miller, R. L., Kobes, S. K. E., & Forney, J. C. (in press).
Building the capacity of small community-based organizations to better serve youth. In W. T. G. Foundation (Ed.), Improving Social Settings to Facilitate Positive Youth Development among Adolescents.
Cambell, R., Jimenez, T.R., Karim, N.M., Khamarko, K., Kobes, S.K.E. et al (2006).
Student-community initiative evaluation project: Development of a program theory logic model.
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University.
Conference Presentations
Kobes, S. (2005).
Analysis of victim and perpetrator blame in reports of sexual abuse.
Presented at the Thirteenth Annual Psychological Science Poster Session, Muncie, Indiana.
Kobes, S. (2005).
Analysis of college students’ perceptions of the media’s portrayals of prostitution.
Presented at the Tenth Annual Student Symposium, Muncie, Indiana.
Kobes, S. (2001).
Conversational and attitudinal analysis of victim blame and rape myth formation in ambiguous sexual assault scenarios.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Nebraska Psychological Society, Omaha, Nebraska.
Kobes, S. (2001).
Conversational and attitudinal analysis of victim blame and rape myth formation in ambiguous sexual assault scenarios.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Nebraska Undergraduate Sociological Symposium (NUSS), Omaha, Nebraska.
Kobes, S. (2001).
The effects of facial symmetry on perceived attractiveness.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Great Plains Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Springfield, Missouri.
Professional Development
NVIVO Qualitative Analysis Computer Software, 2006, Denver, CO
American Evaluation Association, 2006, Portland, OR
Advanced Training In: Interviewing Techniques, Hierarchical Linear Models, and Moderating Focus Groups
Michigan Victim Assistance Academy, 2006, Lansing, MI
Advanced Training In: Victim Expectations, Crisis Intervention, SANE/Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Legal Updates, Identity Theft, Vicarious Trauma, Professional Ethics, Crime Victim Compensation, and Child Abuse/Victimization
Current Research Project

I am currently working with Rebecca Campbell developing of an ecological analysis of/and program theory of Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs).