Ethical Aspects of Outcome Studies in Social, Behavioral, and Educational Interventions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12385291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eileen Gambrill (0000-0002-4564-0672, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 654-663 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research on Social Work Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7315 • E-ISSN: 1552-7581 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049731511404437 |
| OpenAlex | W2092417879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 50 |
The domain of outcome research is enormous and the consequences weighty. Ethical, practical, and political goals of evaluation have insured a multitude of outcome studies concerning social, behavioral, and educational interventions as well as critiques thereof and descriptions of how to conduct related research. We have a rich literature guiding the design, conduct, reporting, and dissemination of outcome studies as well as a rich literature showing that such studies are often flawed and often hype inflated claims of knowledge (or ignorance). Uncertainties are often ignored resulting in harm to clients. I suggest that a focus on avoidable ignorance and its harmful consequences as well as taking advantage of Grice’s maxims of discourse guided by ethical obligations of professionals to do more good than harm will increase the percentage of sound outcome studies and accurate reporting
Engineering ethics · Harm · Ignorance · Multitude · Outcome (game theory · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Community Health and Development · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Studies in the sociology of social problems
Evaluation
Thinking about social problems
Biomedicalization
Saving the Modern Soul
The Medicalization of Society
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
Advertising the American Dream
Biases in the Interpretation and Use of Research Results
Why Most Discovered True Associations Are Inflated
Seeing is believing
Deviance and medicalization
Punishing the Poor
On Bullshit
Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
Use of Novel Unsupported and Empirically Supported Therapies by Licensed Clinical Social Workers
Problematic Phrases in the Conclusions of Published Outcome Studies
Evidence-Informed Practice
The case for Multisystemic Therapy
Technology as Magic
Bureaucratic Propaganda
Trying to do more Good than Harm in Policy and Practice
Varieties of Ignorance
Antifragile
Science on Stage
The Idea of Justice
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |