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PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION RESEARCH: AN INTRODUCTION FOR FAMILY THERAPISTS
Author(s) -
Piercy Fred P.,
Thomas Volker
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1998.tb01073.x
Subject(s) - citizen journalism , participatory evaluation , participatory action research , family therapy , work (physics) , psychology , psychotherapist , sociology , engineering ethics , medicine , political science , social science , engineering , mechanical engineering , anthropology , law
Participatory evaluation research empowers the consumers of services to become leaders in evaluation and change. Participatory research methods have been used widely in developing countries and are consistent with family therapy's recent emphasis on non‐hierarchical, empowering, collaborative therapies. In this paper, the authors present several examples of participatory evaluation methods and discuss their applicability to the work of family therapists.