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La Prévention en Santé Mentale Communautaire: À La Recherche d'une Méthodologie Évaluative Appropriée

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 1985

Abstract

Various considerations of theoretical, ethical and strategical order, should incite community psychologists to pay more interest to the evaluative questions. In doing so they will have to face two major problems. First of all, they will have to avoid the traps given by the methodological and theoretical debates: specifically, the medical and ecological models, and the quantitative and qualitative methods. And then, they will have to locate new decision criteria that will permit them to make their methodological choices in a less routine-minded way. These criteria will undoubtedly have to be found among the question asked by the evaluation, the pragmatic characteristics of the program and the nature of its theoretical base.

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Diverses considérations d'ordre théorique, éthique, et stratégique devraient inciter les psychologues communautaires à intéresser davantage aux questions évaluatives. Toutefois, ce faisant, ils devront affronter deux probèmes majeurs. En premier lieu, il leur faudra éviter les pièges posés par les sempiternels débats méthodologiques et théoriques qui opposent depuis toujours les modèles médical et écologique ainsi que les méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives. Ensuite, il leur faudra repérer de nouveaux critères de décisions qui leur permettront de faire leurs choix méthodologiques d'une manière moins routinière. Ces critères seront sans doute à trouver du coté des questions posées par l'évaluation, des caractéristiques pragmatiques du programme et de la nature du rationnel théorique qui le sous-tend.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 4Number 2September 1985
Pages: 10 - 21

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Version of record online: 23 Avril 2009

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Denis Lafortune
Université de Montrél
Margaret C. Kiely
Université de Montrél

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