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3. What should be the criteria then for whether
the program achieving its goals or not?
We need to specify goals of the program and maybe
also hopes...
The goals would be (as a logical implication of
the nature of the program):
a. That there is an improved understanding/awareness
on the part of the caregiver for the positive qualities of care
that should and could exist between herself and her child.
b. That the caregiver in addition to increased
self-insight also has a stronger sense of self-confidence as caregiver.
c. That the caregiver is more differentiated in
her/his perception of the child and his/her reactions.
d. That the caregiver has developed a more differentiated
personal theory of how and why the child acts in different situations
that is more interpretive and more based on the child's point of
view and the child's intentions.
e. That the caregiver behaves more sensitively
and considerate in relation to the child.
f. That the emotional relation child to the child
is more positive and differentiated.
g. That the child's feeling towards the caregiver
is most probably more positive and differentiated than before.
This entire thesis should be argued for in relation
to the nature of the intervention.
This would be a more realistic micro-evaluation
of the program in line with the nature of the program and its immediate
intentions. It would of course be good if our interventions had
long-term effects of a dramatic nature, that would help funding,
but it is beyond any realistic understanding of how child development
takes place in a socio-cultural reality. Such a microanalysis however
could be more differentiated so that one could assess the single
components of the program and even its "dosage". This
could be done in small-scale experimental studies with in depth
interviewing of the participants.
Professor Karsten
Hundeide, Oslo University
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