What Is Empowerment Anyway? A Model for Domestic Violence Practice, Research, and Evaluation
What Is Empowerment Anyway? A Model for Domestic Violence Practice, Research, and Evaluation
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DOI：
10.1037/a0035137
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Goodman, Lisa A.
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作者：
Cattaneo, Lauren Bennett;Goodman, Lisa A.
尽管赋予权力的理念是反家庭暴力运动的核心，但关于这一结构的定义特征的共识仍然难以捉摸。明确和一致的授权定义将促进制定研究和评价的共同标准，并指导制定最佳做法。在本文中，我们描述了使授权概念化变得困难的具体挑战。然后，我们概述了授权过程模型，并描述了它解决这些挑战的方法。该模型将授权描述为通过社会世界中的互动获得的权力体验的有意义的转变，并将建立授权的过程描述为一个迭代的过程，在这个过程中，一个人采取行动实现个人有意义的目标；利用社区支持、技能、知识和自我效能来实现这些目标；并观察这些行为导致进展的程度。通过结合过程和结果维度，弥合心理和上下文领域，并允许领域特异性，该模型解决了明确概念化的挑战；并提供了一个共同的框架，可以作为从业者和研究人员希望应用该结构的参考点。最后，对其在研究和实践中的应用提出了建议和实例。
Although the idea of empowerment lies at the heart of the anti-domestic violence movement, consensus on the defining characteristics of this construct have remained elusive. A clear and consistent definition of empowerment would promote the development of common metrics for research and evaluation, and guide the development of best practices. In this article, we describe specific challenges that have made the conceptualization of empowerment difficult. We then overview the Empowerment Process Model, and describe the ways in which it addresses those challenges. This model articulates empowerment as a meaningful shift in the experience of power attained through interaction in the social world, and describes the process of building empowerment as an iterative one, in which a person takes action toward personally meaningful goals; draws on community supports, skill, knowledge, and self-efficacy to move toward those goals; and observes the extent to which those actions result in progress. By incorporating both process and outcome dimensions, bridging the psychological and contextual realms, and allowing for domain specificity, the model addresses challenges to a clear conceptualization; and provides a common framework that may be used as a reference point for practitioners and researchers wishing to apply the construct. We conclude with suggestions for and examples of its application in research and practice.