Community influences on mental health program evaluation

American Journal of Community Psychology
D R Atkinson

Abstract

Research in community psychology has demonstrated that community environments can play a key role in defining the operations of human service institutions. This study questioned whether significant community groups might indirectly influence the program evaluation record-keeping of mental health outpatient programs to reflect contact with problem areas considered important by those groups. An inventory of program evaluation materials was conducted in three types of mental health programs. The ranked frequencies of record completion for 10 designated problem areas were correlated with staff rankings of importance for agency work with problems identified by key community groups. Results indicate that the more important the community demand is to the staff, the more systematically complete will be data sources which document agency performance for that demand. Given the general lack of comprehensive development of program evaluation in many mental health programs, the results suggest that community interest groups may play a major role in determining what types of information on mental health problems are made available to the public. The resultant lack of balance and scope in these data inevitably limit the range of community res...Continue Reading

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Mar 1, 1973·The American Psychologist·N Caplan, S D Nelson

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