Evaluation

Partnering With Families Affected by Concurrent Disorders - Facilitators' Guide

In Evaluation:

• Family response to the program and program materials
• Measuring outcomes

Family response to the program and program materials

Family education programs should include a component that measures the participants’ degree of satisfaction with the program materials and the delivery. Any basic evaluation form should have brief questions that can be answered on a scale (quantitative) and questions that can be responded to in narrative form (qualitative). These forms can be handed out at the end of each session, or toward the end of the final group session.

Here are some examples of questions that can be answered using a scale:

• What is your overall rating of this session (OR, if you choose to ask this question at the end of the program, the family group)?
• How satisfied were you with the material covered?
• How satisfied were you with the format of the group (the way it was run)?

Here are some examples of open-ended questions:

• What did you like about the group? (OR what did you like about this week’s group session?)
• What did you dislike about the family concurrent disorders education and support group? (OR what did you dislike about this week’s group session?)
• Which of the A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders chapters were your favourites and why? (OR list the names of the chapters/sessions and ask people to place a check beside their favourites, or rate their top three favourite sessions.)
• Did you dislike any of the A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders chapters? Were there any chapters that did not meet your personal needs/interests? Which ones and why?
• Would you recommend that we drop any of the material or chapters from the family guide?
• Is there any information that you think is missing from the family guide and really should be included?
• Do you have any other comments?

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Partnering With Families Affected by Concurrent Disorders - Facilitators' Guide

• Overview
• Working with families
• Preparation
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Session Outlines
  • Session 1: Introduction
  • Session 2: Substance use problems
  • Session 3: Mental health problems
  • Session 4: How concurrent disorders affect family life
  • Session 5: Self-care
  • Session 6: Stigma
  • Session 7: Navigating the treatment system
  • Session 8: Medication
  • Session 9: Relapse prevention
  • Session 10: Crisis and emergency
  • Session 11: Recovery
  • Session 12: Saying goodbye
• References
• Resources
• Appendix 1: An Overview of the Research
• Appendix 2: The Partnering With Families Affected by Concurrent Disorders Project

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