EDITORIAL STATEMENT: BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN RESIDENTIAL AND COMMUNITY-BASED CLINICAL PROGRAMS

How can we best empower people living in the most economically disadvantaged areas of the world to improve their lives in ways that matter to them? This book investigates work of the NGO Tostan as a working model of human development. The study is grounded in the ethnographic study of the actual change that happened in one West African village. The result is a powerful mix of theory and practice that questions existing approaches to development and that speaks to both development scholars and practitioners. Divided into three parts, the book firstly assesses why top-down approaches to education and development are unhelpful and offers a theoretical understanding of what constitutes helpful development. Part two examines Tostan's community-based participatory approach as an example of a helpful development intervention, and offers qualitative evidence of its effectiveness. Part three builds a model of how community-led development works, why it is helpful, and what practitioners can do to help people at the grassroots level lead their own human development.

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All Is Good, but Not Really: Daily Reports of Satisfaction With Home- and Community-Based Services

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2194 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 639-640

Author(s):

Jyoti Savla ◽

Karen Roberto ◽

Aubrey Knight ◽

Rosemary Blieszner ◽

Brandy Renee McCann ◽

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Keyword(s):

Service Use ◽

Service Providers ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Community Based ◽

Daily Diaries ◽

Rural Caregivers ◽

Service Expectations ◽

Extensive Body ◽

Barriers To Health ◽

Community Based Services

Abstract An extensive body of literature documents correlates of and barriers to health service use, yet much less is known about satisfaction with home- and community-based services for persons with dementia (PwD). Daily diary data from 122 rural caregivers (CG) of PwD (814 daily diaries) were used to assess everyday service use experiences. At the last diary interview, CG identified areas where service use expectations were and were not being met. CGs reported problems with services used on fewer than 5% of study days (e.g., service provider was delayed because of car trouble). In contrast, 82% of CG identified areas where service expectations were not being met. Their most common concerns were lack of control over service availability and lack of adequate training among service providers. Recommendations for alternative ways for capturing service use satisfaction will be offered, and implications for theory and practice will be discussed.

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Functional Analytic Multisensory Environmental Therapy for People with Dementia

International Journal of Alzheimer s Disease ◽

10.1155/2012/294801 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jason A. Staal

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Interventions ◽

Disease Process ◽

Well Being ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Behavioral Theory ◽

Behavioral Disturbance ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Treatment Room ◽

People With Dementia ◽

Multisensory Environment

This paper introduces Functional Analytic Multisensory Environmental Therapy (FAMSET) for use with elders with dementia while using a multisensory environment/snoezelen room. The model introduces behavioral theory and practice to the multisensory environment treatment, addressing assessment, and, within session techniques, integrating behavioral interventions with emotion-oriented care. A modular approach is emphasized to delineate different treatment phases for multisensory environment therapy. The aim of the treatment is to provide a safe and effective framework for reducing the behavioral disturbance of the disease process, increasing elder well-being, and to promote transfer of positive effects to other environments outside of the multisensory treatment room.

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Youth-Led REP: Building Critical Consciousness for Social Change

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.26.2.tx771257668m4345 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 45-50

Author(s):

Jonathan London ◽

Melissa Chabrán

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Research Evaluation ◽

Popular Education ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Social Critique ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Community Based ◽

Empowerment Evaluation ◽

Community Based Research ◽

The Social

If knowledge is a form of power, then to lack knowledge is to lack power, and to build knowledge is to build power. This seemingly basic notion is at the source of diverse streams of theory and practice entitled participatory action research, community-based research, counter mapping, popular education and empowerment evaluation. It is from these historical, political and methodological headwaters that a relatively new stream of work, called youth-led action research, evaluation and planning, arises. These practices, while distinct, all represent attempts to build the power and capacity of those at the margins of society to examine, define, and ultimately shape their worlds according to their needs, visions and values. Youth-led action research, evaluation and planning expands the social critique and progressive stance towards breaking the monopolies of power/knowledge to include age-based inequities, along with (and in relationship to) inequities based on race, ethnicity, class gender, sexuality and other markers of difference.

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Transformative Action: A Theoretical Framework for Breaking New Ground

eJournal of Public Affairs ◽

10.21768/ejopa.v7i2.4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Institutions ◽

The United States ◽

Public Affairs ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Structural Factors ◽

Community Based ◽

Institutionalized Racism ◽

The Social ◽

The Status ◽

Transformative Action

Developed by Paulo Freire, critical consciousness (CrC) is a philosophical, theoretical, and practice-based framework encompassing an individual’s understanding of and action against the structural roots of inequity and violence. This article explores divergent CrC scholarship regarding CrC theory and practice; provides an in-depth review of inconsistencies within the CrC “action” domain; and, in an effort to resolve discrepancies within the existing CrC literature, presents a new construct—transformative action (TA)—and details the process of TA development. Comprising three hierarchical levels of action (critical, avoidant, and destructive) for each level of the socio-ecosystem, TA serves as a model for community-based practitioners, such as those working in the fields of social work and public affairs. The authors argue that transformation is necessary to deconstruct the social institutions in the United States that maintain and perpetuate systemic inequity, creating dehumanizing consequences. Through critical TA, community workers can make visible hidden socio-structural factors, such as institutionalized racism and White privilege, countering the historic trend of community workers acting as tools of social control—that is, socializing individuals to adapt to marginalized roles and accept inferior treatment; maintaining and enforcing the status quo; and facilitating conformity with inequitable societal norms and practices. The authors also discuss the implications of community-based TA practice.

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