Founding Research
Founding Principles, Research and Development
Psychological Science (DLS), Abusive Behavioral Syndrome (ABS), and Global H Codes (GHC): The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The two core sets of principles founding ABS Community Research, Inc were established in 2000. A third set of principles was established in 2004. Each founding measure requires extensive clinical and field research, plus work with leadership in order to establish standards in preparation for global community use.
Abusive Behavioral Syndrome was a concept for protecting victims, providing victims and witnesses with a language and framework to reference in recalling incidents for testimony and healing. The principles formed into a criminal psychological profile through clinical research with felony offenders in a community justice environment.
Psychological Science was originally an integration of psychological theories, on the basis of research in creativity, intelligence, and fundamental principles of physics and math. The principles formed into a scientific method for mental health following research on consistencies between psychological theories, and establishing consistent applicability to the range of mental health populations.
Both criminal justice and mental health fields are concerned with hundreds of populations. The founder of ABS was recommended to establish a nonprofit organization to manage clinical research and related standards development for resulting programs. As both mental health and justice have interdisciplinary practices, the founder initiated development of program standards for community justice, clinical psychology, medicine and wellness, education, and labor. The initial generic set of program standards is called “ABS Intervention Guidelines.”
In order to manage this multitude of field-specifications, population specialties, and programmatic diversity, the founder established “Global H Codes” (GHC). GHC is a generic economic classification system that establishes hierarchical order for all nonprofit/public industries, consumers, program operations, and administrative issues including finance and stakeholder relations. GHC provided the developments for community justice and mental health with a consistent framework in support of interdisciplinary administration.
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