Atkinson D R
Am J Community Psychol. 1978 Aug;6(4):339-50. doi: 10.1007/BF00885525.
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 responses for program improvement.
社区心理学研究表明，社区环境在界定人类服务机构的运作方面可发挥关键作用。本研究探讨了重要社区团体是否可能间接影响心理健康门诊项目的项目评估记录保存，使其反映与这些团体认为重要的问题领域的接触情况。对三种类型的心理健康项目进行了项目评估材料清查。针对10个指定问题领域的记录完成排名频率与工作人员对机构处理关键社区团体确定问题的重要性排名相关。结果表明，社区需求对工作人员越重要，记录机构针对该需求表现的数据来源就会越系统完整。鉴于许多心理健康项目普遍缺乏项目评估的全面发展，研究结果表明社区利益团体可能在决定向公众提供哪些心理健康问题信息类型方面发挥主要作用。这些数据由此缺乏的平衡性和范围不可避免地限制了社区对项目改进做出反应的范围。
