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The Occupational Therapist’S Role In Stress Management: Management, Identifying Burnout & Parent Support, Kimkesia Morgan, Taisha Trotman
The Occupational Therapist’S Role In Stress Management: Management, Identifying Burnout & Parent Support, Kimkesia Morgan, Taisha Trotman
Occupational Therapy Faculty Scholarship
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‘Effective’ At What? On Effective Intervention In Serious Mental Illness, Susan Hawthorne, Anne Williams-Wengerd
‘Effective’ At What? On Effective Intervention In Serious Mental Illness, Susan Hawthorne, Anne Williams-Wengerd
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
The term “effective,” on its own, is honorific but vague. Interventions against serious mental illness may be “effective” at goals as diverse as reducing “apparent sadness” or providing housing. Underexamined use of “effective” and other success terms often obfuscates differences and incompatibilities in interventions, degrees of effectiveness, key omissions in effectiveness standards, and values involved in determining what counts as “effective.” Yet vague use of such success terms is common in the research, clinical, and policy realms, with consequences that negatively affect the care offered to individuals experiencing serious mental illness. A pragmatist-oriented solution to these problems suggests that when …