Disempowerment Evaluation and the Risks of Avoiding Stakeholder Feedback

Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI:10.1080/21501378.2022.2025586

S. Mason

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT Evaluation can bring positive, often cathartic effects for those who participate in evaluation activities. Inviting stakeholder feedback conveys respect, a commitment to improvement, and lets program participants know their perspectives are valued. The absence of evaluation, on the other hand, can cause harm to program recipients by conveying the message that their voices don’t matter—and their experiences matter even less. This is particularly the case for programs and policies that mandate participation, such as recent hotel quarantine policies or federal vaccine mandates. In this article, the notion of disempowerment evaluation—the structural avoidance of stakeholder feedback— is introduced and its potential for negatively affecting participant health and well-being is discussed. Implications for evaluators of counseling and mental health programs are discussed.

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权力剥夺评估与回避利益相关者反馈的风险

评价可以给参与评价活动的人带来积极的、往往是宣泄的效果。邀请利益相关者反馈传达了尊重，对改进的承诺，并让项目参与者知道他们的观点是有价值的。另一方面，缺乏评估可能会对项目接受者造成伤害，因为它传达了这样的信息:他们的声音不重要，他们的经历更不重要。对于强制参与的项目和政策来说尤其如此，比如最近的酒店隔离政策或联邦疫苗规定。在本文中，介绍了权力剥夺评估的概念-对利益相关者反馈的结构性回避-并讨论了其对参与者健康和福祉产生负面影响的可能性。对心理咨询和心理健康项目评估者的影响进行了讨论。

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Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation Psychology-Psychology (all)

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期刊介绍： Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CORE) provides counselor educators, researchers, educators, and other mental health practitioners with outcome research and program evaluation practices for work with individuals across the lifespan. It addresses topics such as: treatment efficacy, clinical diagnosis, program evaluation, research design, outcome measure reviews. This journal also serves to address ethical, legal, and cultural concerns in the assessment of dependent variables, implementation of clinical interventions, and outcome research. Manuscripts typically fall into one of the following categories: Counseling Outcome Research: Treatment efficacy and effectiveness of mental health, school, addictions, rehabilitation, family, and college counseling interventions across the lifespan as reported in clinical trials, single-case research designs, single-group designs, and multi- or mixed-method designs.