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Empowerment Evaluation

Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability

By: David M. Fetterman,Shakeh J. Kaftarian,Abraham Wandersman

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Empowerment Evaluation

Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability

By: David M. Fetterman,Shakeh J. Kaftarian,Abraham Wandersman

This outstanding group of evaluators from academia, government, nonprofits, and foundations explores empowerment evaluation, a method for using evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination. Empowerment Evaluation begins with an in-depth examination of this type of evaluation as it has been adopted in academic and foundation settings. The book then focuses on the various contexts in which empowerment evaluation is conducted, ranging from resistant environments (in which significant effort is required to move from passive-compliance orientations) to responsive environments (that already have a tradition of self-determination and community organizing). Interesting highlights concerning the role empowerment evaluation has played in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' substance abuse prevention programs are detailed throughout the book. The contributors also provide down-to-earth tools and technical assistance needed to conduct empowerment evaluation. This volume concludes with themes that emerge from the chapters and recommendations concerning next steps. This serves to strengthen the links between empowerment evaluation and community capacity building. empow

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1452247781

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Empowerment Evaluation

Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability

By: David M. Fetterman,Shakeh J. Kaftarian,Abraham Wandersman

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Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability

By: David M. Fetterman,Shakeh J. Kaftarian,Abraham Wandersman

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076190025X

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9780761900252

Psychology and Community Change

Challenges of the Future

By: Richard H. Price,Kenneth Heller,Shulamit Reinharz,Stephanie Riger,Abraham Wandersman

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Psychology and Community Change

Challenges of the Future

By: Richard H. Price,Kenneth Heller,Shulamit Reinharz,Stephanie Riger,Abraham Wandersman

This insightful book provides a comprehensive survey of the community psychology approach to therapeutic intervention and prevention of behavioral disorders in the context of community population.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0534105610

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9780534105617

The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard

Contradiction and Meaning in City Form

By: Abraham Akkerman

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The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard

Contradiction and Meaning in City Form

By: Abraham Akkerman

Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century's opposing outlooks on cities. Howard had envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch, fashioned on single family homes with small gardens. Jacobs embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods emphasizing the verve of the living street. From Howard's idea, the American Dream of garden suburbs had emerged, yet his conceptualization of a modern city received criticism for being uniform and alienated from the rest of the city. Similarly, at the turn of the new century, Jacobs' inner-city neighbourhoods came to be recognized as the result of commodification, vacillating between poverty and newly discovered hubs of urban authenticity. Presenting Howard and Jacobs within a psychocultural context, The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard addresses our urban crisis in the recognition that "city form" is a gendered, allegorical medium expressing femininity and masculinity within two founding features of the built environment: void and volume. Both founding contrasts bring tensions, but also the opportunities of fusion between pairs of urban polarities: human scale against superscale, gait against speed, and spontaneity against surveillance. Jacobs and Howard, in their respective attitudes, have come to embrace the two ancient archetypes, the Garden and the Citadel, leaving it to future generations to blend their two contrarian stances.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487501269

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9781487501266

Handbook of Person-Centered Mental Health Care

By: Nosheen Akhtar,Cheryl Forchuk,Katherine McKay,Sandra Fisman,Abraham Rudnick

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Handbook of Person-Centered Mental Health Care

By: Nosheen Akhtar,Cheryl Forchuk,Katherine McKay,Sandra Fisman,Abraham Rudnick

Practical tools for putting people at the center of mental health care Person-centered mental health care is essential for keeping service users at the center of care. This handbook uses practical examples across health care, research, education, and leadership to illustrate how to implement person-centered approaches for and with the growing population of service users who have mental health challenges. Looking at the different service user encounters enables service providers to envision the effective, comprehensive implementation of person-centered care. Each chapter follows a concrete example exploring different techniques, tools, and resources that can be used with service users who have mental health challenges. An appendix provides the handouts in online, printable form. Written by experts in person-centered care who have diverse experiences with mental health-related practices, policies, research, and education, this comprehensive handbook is a valuable resource for psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners,researchers, educators, and policy makers who work with people who have mental health challenges as well as for service users and their families.

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Hogrefe Publishing GmbH

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1613345682

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9781613345689

Evaluation matters

A practitioners' guide to sound evaluation for urban mobility measures

By: Katrin Dziekan,Veronique Riedel,Stephanie Müller,Michael Abraham,Stefanie Kettner,Stephan Daubi

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Evaluation matters

A practitioners' guide to sound evaluation for urban mobility measures

By: Katrin Dziekan,Veronique Riedel,Stephanie Müller,Michael Abraham,Stefanie Kettner,Stephan Daubi

Based on the authors' rich experiences, this book demonstrates that evaluation of measures aimed at more sustainable mobility is a useful task which can be learned by everybody. By integrating theory and practice it offers richly-illustrated case examples and cartoons to provide hands on advice. It offers a framework for thinking about evaluation of mobility-related measures and outlines the necessary steps for good evaluation practice. Key Features •Richly illustrated by comics and on real measure examples. •A step-by-step hands on guide for practitioners.

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Waxmann Verlag

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3830978812

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9783830978817

Humanism and Behaviorism

Dialogue and Growth

By: Abraham Wandersman,Paul J. Poppen,David F. Ricks

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Humanism and Behaviorism

Dialogue and Growth

By: Abraham Wandersman,Paul J. Poppen,David F. Ricks

Humanism and Behaviorism: Dialogue and Growth explores issues in humanistic and behavioristic approaches to personality change. It seeks to demonstrate the value of a dialogue between humanism and behaviorism in order to clarify controversies between the two approaches; evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each approach; and show the potential of syntheses between parts of each approach to develop new and useful integrations. This book is divided into eight sections and begins with an overview of the state of humanism and behaviorism and the controversies that have divided them, along with the possible frameworks for synthesizing the two. The next section focuses on the person, techniques of therapy, and therapist control. Behavior therapy as a humanitarian enterprise is considered. Subsequent chapters assess the effectiveness of humanistic and behavioristic approaches to personality change and the compatibilities between them. The theory of affective behaviorism and its application to effectively teach children with behavior problems to develop self-control is described. Self and personality are also discussed from humanistic and behavioristic viewpoints. Finally, some possible directions for the future of humanism and behaviorism are suggested. This monograph should be useful to undergraduate and graduate students in clinical and personality psychology; to those who intend to do research in and/or practice psychotherapy; and to academicians and professionals in psychology, philosophy, psychiatry, social work, and counseling.

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1483147509

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