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Experimental social innovation and client‐centered job‐seeking programs
Author(s) -
Gray Denis O.,
Braddy Barri A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00919374
Subject(s) - health psychology , psychological intervention , outcome (game theory) , psychology , yield (engineering) , social psychology , applied psychology , public health , economics , microeconomics , medicine , materials science , nursing , psychiatry , metallurgy
Conclusions The complexity of most social problems and a growing human services shortfall dictate that we reevaluate our approach to planned social change. Simplistic one‐shot evaluations of social interventions are unlikely to yield the kind of information that will help us identify true social innovations, understand and refine their instrumental processes, and thereby optimize their effects. However, incremental progress in these areas is possible through the pursuit of ESI or other systematic and rigorous approaches to outcome research.