Curtin University Homepage
  • Library
  • Help
    • Admin

    espace - Curtin’s institutional repository

    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
    View Item 
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item

    Participatory organizational change in community-based health and human services: From tokenism to political engagement

    Access Status
    Fulltext not available
    Authors
    Bess, K.
    Prilleltensky, Issac
    Perkins, D.
    Collins, L.
    Date
    2009
    Type
    Journal Article
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citation
    Bess, K. and Prilleltensky, I. and Perkins, D. and Collins, L. 2009. Participatory organizational change in community-based health and human services: From tokenism to political engagement. American Journal of Community Psychology. 43 (1-2): pp. 134-148.
    Source Title
    American Journal of Community Psychology
    DOI
    10.1007/s10464-008-9222-8
    ISSN
    0091-0562
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32018
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Community psychologists have long worked with community-based human service organizations to build participatory processes. These efforts largely aim at building participatory practices within the current individual-wellness paradigm of human services. To address collective wellness, human service organizations need to challenge their current paradigm, attend to the social justice needs of community, and engage community participation in a new way, and in doing so become more openly political. We use qualitative interviews, focus groups, organizational documents, and participant observation to present a comparative case study of two organizations involved in such a process through an action research project aimed at transforming the organizations' managerial and practice paradigm from one based on first-order, ameliorative change to one that promotes second-order, transformative change via strength-based approaches, primary prevention, empowerment and participation, and focuses on changing community conditions. Four participatory tensions or dialectics are discussed: passive versus active participation, partners versus clients, surplus powerlessness versus collective efficacy, and reflection/learning versus action/doing. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • Delivering a personalised smoking cessation intervention by community pharmacists in Western Australia : a randomised controlled trial
      Burford, Oksana J (2012)
      Background: Tobacco smoking leads to death or disability and a drain on national resources. The literature suggests that cigarette smoking continues to be a major modifiable risk factor for a variety of diseases and that ...
    • From consultation to participation in public health research: reflections on a community-based research partnership
      Breen, Lauren; O'Connor, Moira (2014)
      Background - Road traffic crashes and their outcomes are substantial global public health issues and public health initiatives are increasingly involving relevant community members in order to create sustainable change. ...
    • A customized semantic service retrieval methodology for the digital ecosystems environment
      Dong, Hai (2010)
      With the emergence of the Web and its pervasive intrusion on individuals, organizations, businesses etc., people now realize that they are living in a digital environment analogous to the ecological ecosystem. Consequently, ...
    Advanced search

    Browse

    Communities & CollectionsIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument TypeThis CollectionIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument Type

    My Account

    Admin

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Follow Curtin

    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 

    CRICOS Provider Code: 00301JABN: 99 143 842 569TEQSA: PRV12158

    Copyright | Disclaimer | Privacy statement | Accessibility

    Curtin would like to pay respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of our community by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which the Perth campus is located, the Whadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation; and on our Kalgoorlie campus, the Wongutha people of the North-Eastern Goldfields.