The Complexity of Fidelity in Measuring System Change
The Case of Family Group Decision Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10896407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Merkel‐holguin (0000-0001-8586-5449, Children's Hospital Colorado, corresponding author), L Merkel-Holguin, Lyscha A Marcynyszyn (0000-0001-5217-4748) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 724-736 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcu092 |
| OpenAlex | W2128113826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 7 |
Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) is used internationally, positioning families to lead decision making, in partnership with statutory authorities, when their children are the subjects of child maltreatment reports. Widely absent has been the measurement of FGDM fidelity. This leaves various stakeholders (programme administrators, policy makers, researchers, social workers and others) with insufficient knowledge about the cohesion between the family meeting processes and the core principles and practices that underpin FGDM. This article, therefore, presents rationales for pursuing fidelity, reviews the limited literature on FGDM fidelity, highlights the inconsistencies between previous fidelity tools and the widely accepted practices and principles enshrined by the FGDM Guidelines Committee (2013), and presents new fidelity measures that better align with the guidelines. It advocates for widespread infusion of fidelity measures into FGDM processes for purposes of evaluation, quality assurance and improvement, and inclusion of the perspectives of family groups in all components of service delivery and programme design.
Fidelity · General partnership · Inclusion (mineral) · Political science · Process management · Public relations · Statutory law · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |