Reconsidering action research as a guiding metaphor for professional psychology

Hoshmand, Lisa Tsoi; O'Byrne, Kathy

doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199607)24:3<185::aid-jcop1>3.0.co;2-x

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“…Perhaps a disincentive in becoming involved with emergent problems with military communities is the emphasis on theory-generated research questions in academia, as opposed to collaborative problem finding and knowledge generation that respond to needs in the lives of people and communities. In spite of the relative openness of community science to participatory or action modes of research (Hoshmand & O'Byrne, 1996;Reason & Bradbury, 2001), there is still a tendency for research and practice to be guided by theories. Although many of the problems experienced by military families call for collaborative efforts both within psychology and with other disciplines, professional overspecialization has prevented such collaboration.…”

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Hoshmand

2007

Journal Community Psychology

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Hoshmand

2007

Journal Community Psychology

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“…In general, Avalon Gardens residents evaluated their own community at several different points throughout the intervention rather than relying solely on practitioners to evaluate progress as outsiders. Taken as a whole, the underlying philosophy for the evaluation procedures chosen were based on the practice of empowermentoriented participatory action research (Hoshmand & O'Byrne, 1996). Baum describes this evaluative process as:…”

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The Avalon Gardens Men’s Association: A Community Health Psychology Case Study

Borg

2002

J Health Psychol

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This article follows the development and progress of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's 'Healthy and Safe Communities' initiative as it was implemented by a community empowerment organization during a four-year community revitalization project in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots. The author explores practical aspects of Community Health Psychology through assessing the ways in which its organizing principles were manifest in community-wide processes of individual and community change in one low-income housing project in South Central Los Angeles called Avalon Gardens. Specifically highlighted is how a group of African American and Latino men in the community created a group forum that helped foster, support and sustain an empowerment process that supported health promotion, health consciousness and significant health improvement in the community.

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“…The reports of P4 and P5 revealed that the beneficiaries were in the main former prostitutes and some living with HIV who were conscripted from the communities (on a stipend) and trained to serve as peer educators. Hoshmand and O'Byrne (1996) alleged that reliable knowledge of the human and social world could only be achieved in the process of attempting to change that world and that genuine change can only occur when it is accompanied by shifts in the knowledge base of those concerned.…”

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Major Factors Influencing HIV/AIDS Project Evaluation

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Green

2005

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This article aimed at finding out if participatory processes (group discussions, enactments, and others) do make a valuable contribution in communication-based project implementation leading to the limiting of the spread of HIV/ AIDS through sexual behavior and a change of attitude-the essence required for successful intervention. Group participatory processes were also noted to have contributed in overriding, to a great extent, limitations arising from sociodemographic differences in the attainment of project objectives and limitations arising from differences in forms of evaluation (internal versus external evaluators). Keywords: HIV/AIDS; evaluations; participation; empowerment; interventionsThis article seeks to find out if participatory processes do make a valuable contribution in project implementation/evaluation and the fight against HIV/ AIDS. These processes imply more than the mere presence of people on board but their active involvement in collectively taking control, developing plans of action, and responding to feedback in relation to future action. These processes could have implications for both interventions and their evaluations. As pointed out by Nutbeam (1998), a significant attempt is being made to understand the complexity of health promotion activities and the related need for sophisticated measures and evaluation research designs. A careful understanding of issues embodying evaluations, particularly those related to meaningful involvement by beneficiaries and other stakeholders in evaluation processes, could then be considered to be of vital importance. To this end, projects dealing with HIV/AIDS in a participatory manner were analyzed in terms of whether they added value to evaluation of communication-

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Reconsidering action research as a guiding metaphor for professional psychology

Cited by 14 publications

References 48 publications

Support for military families and communities

Support for military families and communities

The Avalon Gardens Men’s Association: A Community Health Psychology Case Study

Major Factors Influencing HIV/AIDS Project Evaluation

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