Empowerment as Treatment and the Role of Health Professionals

Powers, Penny

doi:10.1097/00012272-200307000-00007

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“…The conceptual difference between blame and responsibility is based on the separation of the responsibility for the problem from the responsibility for the solution (Powers, 2003). Prospective or forward-looking responsibility is about taking responsibility for present actions and future consequences.…”

Section: Conceptual Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social and Health Care Professionals’ Views on Responsible Agency in the Process of Ending Intimate Partner Violence

Virkki

2015

Violence Against Women

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This article examines social and health care professionals' views, based on their encounters with both victims and perpetrators, on the division of responsibility in the process of ending intimate partner violence. Applying discourse analysis to focus group discussions with a total of 45 professionals on solutions to the problem, several positions of responsible agency that the professionals place themselves and their clients in are identified. The results suggest that one key to understanding the complexities involved in violence intervention lies in a more adequate theorization of the temporal and intersubjective dimensions of the process of assigning responsibility for the problem.

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Social and Health Care Professionals’ Views on Responsible Agency in the Process of Ending Intimate Partner Violence

Virkki

2015

Violence Against Women

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“…In the case of the SPCS, negatively worded items such as "Most public officials wouldn't listen to me no matter what I did" may be more relevant to constructs such as depressive realism (Alloy & Abramson, 1988;Msetfi, Murphy, Simpson, & Kornbrot, 2005) than intrapersonal PE. Efforts to enhance the validity of the SPCS are needed because they may improve the quality of research and evaluation studies that measure PE, a fundamental concept in community psychology and other fields such as social work (Itzhaky & York, 2002), education (Cummings, 1997), nursing (Powers, 2003) and public health (Minkler & Wallerstein, 2003).…”

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Measuring the Intrapersonal Component of Psychological Empowerment: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Sociopolitical Control Scale

Peterson

Lowe

Hughey

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American J of Comm Psychol

109

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The Sociopolitical Control Scale (SPCS) is a widely used measure of the intrapersonal component of psychological empowerment. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were conducted with data from two samples to test the hypothesized structure of the SPCS, the potential effects of method bias on the measure's psychometric properties, and whether a revised version of the scale (SPCS-R) yielded improved model fit. Sample 1 included 316 randomly selected community residents of the Midwestern United States. Sample 2 included 750 community residents of the Northeastern U.S. Results indicated that method bias from the use of negatively worded items had a significant effect on the factor structure of the SPCS. CFA of the SPCS-R, in which negatively worded items were rephrased so that all statements were positively worded, supported the measure's hypothesized two-factor structure (i.e., leadership competence and policy control). Subscales of the SPCS-R were found reliable and related in expected ways with measures of community involvement. Implications of the study for empowerment-based research and practice are described, and strategies to further develop the SPCS are discussed.

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“…A hallmark of bureaucracy is clear and transparent standards with explicit job requirements, whereas NPM argues for a more flexible approach. The emphasis on teamwork, empowerment, and informal and social competencies in Clinical Microsystems may give the illusion of a flat organization and a sense that influence is widely spread when, in fact, influence becomes strictly conditional; in order to exercise influence, an individual must behave in a prescribed way and display the appropriate attitudes (Powers, 2003), such as being collaborative and flexible.…”

Section: New Public Management: Changing Forms Of Organizational Controlmentioning

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The gender subtext of new public management‐based work practices in Swedish health care

Hedegaard

Ahl

2013

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

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Findings -While on the surface an egalitarian and consensus based model, it nevertheless risks reinforcing a gendered hierarchical order. The explicit emphasis on social competencies, on being collaborative and amenable to change risks, paradoxically, disfavoring women. A major reason is that control becomes more opaque, which favors those already in power.Practical implications -The article calls for researchers as well as practitioners to incorporate concerns of equality in the work place when introducing new work practices in health care. For research, we propose a useful theoretical framework for empirical research.For practice, the article calls for more transparent conditions for multi-professional collaboration, such as formalized merit and advancement systems, precisely formulated performance expectations and selection of team members based strictly on formal merits.Originality/value -A gender analysis of a seemingly anti-hierarchical management model is an original contribution, adding to the literature on Clinical Microsystem in particular but also to critical studies on New Public Management. Moreover, it has a valuable practical contribution in suggesting ways of avoiding the reproduction of gender inequalities otherwise implied in the model.

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Empowerment as Treatment and the Role of Health Professionals

Cited by 38 publications

References 39 publications

Social and Health Care Professionals’ Views on Responsible Agency in the Process of Ending Intimate Partner Violence

Social and Health Care Professionals’ Views on Responsible Agency in the Process of Ending Intimate Partner Violence

Measuring the Intrapersonal Component of Psychological Empowerment: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Sociopolitical Control Scale

The gender subtext of new public management‐based work practices in Swedish health care

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