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Qualitative Research: The Future of Training Efficacy

Qualitative Research: The Future of Training Efficacy. ATTC: The Training Point Conference call Wednesday, August 15 th , 2007 11:00 am Central Standard Time. The Future of Addiction Treatment & Recovery. “Fostering the development of Recovery-oriented Systems of Care (ROSC)”.

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Qualitative Research: The Future of Training Efficacy

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  1. Qualitative Research: The Future of Training Efficacy ATTC: The Training Point Conference call Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 11:00 am Central Standard Time

  2. The Future of Addiction Treatment & Recovery “Fostering the development of Recovery-oriented Systems of Care (ROSC)” Clark, H.W. (2007) National Perspective & Future Directions. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Departmentof Health and Human Services.

  3. ROSC Comprehensive, flexible, outcome driven and uniquely individualized; offering a fully coordinated menu of services and supports to maximize choice at every point in the Recovery process. Clark, H.W. (2007) National Perspective & Future Directions. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Departmentof Health and Human Services.

  4. Implementing ROSC • Requires Vision and Leadership • Requires systems CHANGE at all levels • Policy • Service • Staff • Volunteer Clark, H.W. (2007) National Perspective & Future Directions. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Departmentof Health and Human Services.

  5. Creating Responsive Systems When beginning any change initiative, it is important to understand the multitude of factors that influence an agency’s or an individual’s willingness and readiness to change. The Change Book: A Blueprint for Technology Transfer (2nd.ed.). 2004. The Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network.

  6. Qualitative Research Purpose is to understand human experiences and reveal both the processes by which people construct meaning about their world and to report what those meanings are. Hull, G. (1997) “Research with Words: Qualitative Inquiry” Focus on Basics 1, no. A. Boston, MA: National Center for the Study of Adult Learning. As the search for “Truth”. Issues in contemporary qualitative research (2002). Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Volume 42, Number 2.

  7. vs. Quantitative Research • Assumes similarity of adults for the purpose of classification • Assume behavior of adults is pre-determined • Used mostly in physical sciences vs. social or human issues • Value free Apps, J. (1979). Problems in continuing education, New York: McGraw-Hill

  8. Adult Learning and Qualitative Research encompass: • Life experience and knowledge • Relevancy • Diversity of learning methods • Existing misinformation

  9. Training Efficacy in Addiction Treatment • Transformative Learning • Action Learning • Experiential Learning • Critical Self-Reflection Learner Centered McCutchan, S. (1997) Transformative Learning: Applications for the Development of Learning Organizations. Midwest Research to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education. Michigan State University.

  10. Methods of Qualitative Research • Action Research – identifying contradictions in practice. • Basic or Generic Qualitative study – simply seek to discover and understand a process with the people involved. • Biography – study of an individual experiences as told by the researcher. • Case Studies – intensive descriptions and analyses of a single unit or bounded system. • Ethnography – Originally used by anthropologists, the study of human society and culture of a specific community. Qualitative Research in Adult, Career, and Career-Technical Education Practitioner file (2002). ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education Center on Education and Training for Employment

  11. Methods of Qualitative Research (Cont.) • Grounded Theory – investigator assumes an inductive stance and strives to derive meaning from the data… a theory that emerges from or is grounded in. • Narrative Inquiry – accessing the meaning of past , present, and future events through alternating processes of inductive reasoning. • Naturalistic Inquiry – the observation and interpretation of social phenomena or generation of meaning in human interaction. • Phenomenology – focus on the structure of an phenomenon, as consciously experienced by those involved, putting aside prior beliefs. Qualitative Research in Adult, Career, and Career-Technical Education Practitioner file (2002). ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education Center on Education and Training for Employment.

  12. Limitations • Time and Resources • Training • Stigma - often called soft science • Change - norm of quantitative research Qualitative Research in Adult, Career, and Career-Technical Education Practitioner file (2202). ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education Center on Education and Training for Employment.

  13. Saving Lives… through the Realityof Systems.

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