Program evaluation in community psychology

Spielberger, Charles D.; Piacente, Beth S.; Hobfoll, Stevan E.

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“…One of its strengths was that the author was invited to make the evaluation by a programme team whose members were aware of the benefits of evaluation and who were prepared to channel some precious financial resources towards it. As Spielberger, Piacente and Hobfoll (1976) pointed out, a positive environment for cooperation in programme evaluation is very important. One of its weaknesses, on the other hand, was that their full PROFAM programme was rarely implemented so that it could not be evaluated.…”

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An evaluation of an australian youth work programme

Viney

1981

Australian Psychologist

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To evaluate the effects of a youth work programme with a focus on interpersonal relationships, contacts were made with young people on the streets of a large Australian city. Verbalizations from them were recorded and content analysed and indicated that they were experiencing a poverty of interpersonal regard. They mentioned few satisfying interpersonal relationships and talked of being lonely. Comparison of young people who participated in the programme with others who did not indicated that the former had made at least short term gains in both of these areas, while other aspects of their experience outside the focus of the programme had not varied from the beginning to the end of the four month period of the evaluation.

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An evaluation of an australian youth work programme

Viney

1981

Australian Psychologist

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“…State anxiety is defined by Spielberger (1976) as a temporary, transient experience of conscious, unpleasant feelings of tension and fears. State anxiety is a result of the encounter between demands and the individual (the possessor of resources), reflecting a loss in areas of life important to the individual (e.g.…”

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“…The State Anxiety Questionnaire (Spielberger, 1976) is theoretically based and structurally valid, suitable for field use, and easy to circulate and evaluate. It is composed of two subscales: a State Anxiety Scale and a Trait Anxiety Scale.…”

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Personal Characteristics, Unemployment, and Anxiety among Highly Educated Immigrants

Lev–Wiesel

Kaufman

2004

International Migration

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This exploratory study examines the relationship between personal resources (sense of potency, marital quality, social support from family and friends), the duration of unemployment, and the level of state anxiety experienced by highly educated, unemployed, middle-aged immigrants. Studying the anxiety levels among populations at-risk such as unemployed immigrants is particularly important in the context of situations of military conflict. In such situations, when formal support systems are in the process of erosion, the unemployed must increasingly rely on social and familial support. The following measures were examined in an anonymous, self-report questionnaire: potency (defined as a person's enduring confidence in his/her own capacities and confidence in, and commitment to, his/ her social environment which is perceived as being characterized by a basically meaningful order and just distribution of rewards), social support from friends and family, marital quality, and state anxiety. Results indicate that personal resources -particularly potency and social support from family -predicted the level of state anxiety among immigrants. Duration of unemployment was also positively correlated with state anxiety. A major recommendation that emerges is the need to foster the development of social support groups consisting of both veterans and new immigrants in order to broaden the social ties of the immigrants. This may assist newcomers not only in finding jobs, but also in coping with political and economic uncertainties in a new cultural context. 58Lev-Wiesel and Kaufman

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“…They are, in the formulation discussed in Spielberger, Piacente, and Hobfoll (1976), for the administrator concerned about receiving feedback that permits adjustments in ongoing programs. They are, in the formulation discussed in Spielberger, Piacente, and Hobfoll (1976), for the administrator concerned about receiving feedback that permits adjustments in ongoing programs.…”

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“…The ideas presented here are based on the author's experiences in dealing with community mental health centers and are intended for administrators who are concerned with the efficiency of their programs. They are, in the formulation discussed in Spielberger, Piacente, and Hobfoll (1976), for the administrator concerned about receiving feedback that permits adjustments in ongoing programs. However, unlike many approaches to the program evaluation process, the techniques discussed here are concerned with assessing the operating efficiency of a program on a routine basis.…”

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Improving the efficiency of a community mental health agency: An accountant's view

Birnberg

1976

American J of Comm Psychol

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This paper describes the rules for the proper implementation of a responsibility accounting system in a mental health center. Responsibility accounting, which relates the costs to the functions that authorize their incurrence, is presented as a technique that aids the unit's manager in controlling costs. The article discusses the rules that should be followed for proper cost association, presents a illustrative statement for a mental health center, and discusses some existing practices, such as line--item accounting, that may appear to conform to good responsibility accounting practices but in reality do not.

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Program evaluation in community psychology

Cited by 7 publications

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An evaluation of an australian youth work programme

An evaluation of an australian youth work programme

Personal Characteristics, Unemployment, and Anxiety among Highly Educated Immigrants

Improving the efficiency of a community mental health agency: An accountant's view

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