Does anyone know of an "attitude, beliefs, perceptions, assumptions" survey/ scale questionnaire?

Does anyone know of an "attitude, beliefs, perceptions, assumptions" survey/ scale questionnaire?

User profile image Betty-Lou - EENet Yoda Master

in Community voices and knowledge sharing |

I am involved in a process to expand capacity to authentically "meet people where they are at".  It originally started with attempting to build capacity for understanding and bridging substance use, harm reduction, housing first philosophy. Then that whole process seemed to get away from "our core values in action" and became more about "the drugs" and knowledge about "the drugs".  Doing a deeper dive and always pursuing critical reflection and truly attempting cultural humility to evolve the culture and truly "put people first"; we realized we needed to get a 'baseline" on beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, perceptions to eventually nurture growth in critical self reflection-acknowledging bias- having courageous conversations.

Does anybody know of a tool, survey, questionnaire, scale that would work?

Yes I googled all night (insomnia comes in handy), and found a billion articles and could not get to actual surveys, but also pieces of brilliance and whole other areas I want to explore like Workplace Resilience Training, Social Intelligence, Social Style etc. Then my brain blew up and I though of this community.

I don't think I need it to be a validated tool, instrument.  I don't think I need to necessarily restrict myself to only using one complete instrument and could pull /adapt questions from multiple points (recognizing that I can't use the proper calculations for scoring but I think a 5 point Likert scale would work).

Thanks for any help

 

 


Hi Betty-Lou,

Sorry that I do not have a tool to share but it sounds fabulous.  If it is possible and you could share I would be most interested.

Andria

 

 

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User profile image Betty-Lou - EENet Yoda Master

I sure will. We may end up having to create one (in which we will share).  At the Centre for Innovation in Peer Support we have done a LOT of work around peer support core values and values in action, to the point of spending two full years creating a validated tool/survey/instrument on Integrity, Quality & Impact of Peer Support, just for baseline data.  (Our larger agency is Support & Housing-Halton). We also cover bias, attitudes, beliefs in our skills training for all 40 peer supporters and 24 peer supervisors across 11 accredited agencies and hospitals partners. 

The more we go back to QI processes and come from that values base, the more we realize that many of the "putting people first" issues are less routed in specifics of treatment philosophies and approaches, and more about trying to nurture authentic human interaction "skills". 

Below is EENet feature of the Centre for anyone who wants to see our Promising Practice feature for context.

http://eenet.ca/resource/centr...ssissauga-and-halton

And here is our new website (it is still a work in progress since we rebranded)

www.centreforinnovationinpeersupport.com

 

 

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Thank you for sharing your context.  Creating one may be the best option.

Hope to keep in the loop.

Andria

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User profile image Emma Firsten-Kaufman - EENet Super Ninja

[@mention:359768822747780657] might have some ideas!

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User profile image Amanda - Member / Membre

Hi Betty-Lou, you may find our "Let’s Talk Dialogue: Community Conversations about Drugs" to be a useful tool...it offers some guidance on how to foster a dialogue around issues like this, although it sounds like you have done a lot of work on that already.

 

https://www.uvic.ca/research/c.../community-guide.pdf

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User profile image Betty-Lou - EENet Yoda Master

Very nice document! I like the whole conversation. Thank you.

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User profile image Christina Foisy - EENet Ninja

I have a few ideas! There are a number of resources out there on "unconscious bias", it's a really popular topic right now. For instance, "Unbiasing" is a toolkit designed to help teams dig deep into their assumptions and attitudes and make the unconscious conscious in order to change. https://rework.withgoogle.com/subjects/unbiasing/

It includes a self-assessment test developed by Harvard researchers:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

The Peer Positive toolkit also has a bunch of activities to help teams critically reflect on their power and privilege. It includes the Critical Reflection Workbook, 4A Cards and the Power wheel:   http://improvingsystems.ca/img...inal-November-24.pdf

And last but not least, one of my all time favourite articles on how to create Brave Spaces

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.o...39eb7d55acc7a202.pdf

 

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User profile image Betty-Lou - EENet Yoda Master

WOW..thanks so much Christina! I had the peer positive one but not the others.

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User profile image Betty-Lou - EENet Yoda Master

Thanks so much Bill!

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User profile image Robert Olcott - EENet Yoda Master

Betty-Lou ,  The author of: "The Origins of Addiction: Evidence from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study" [Vincent Felitti, M.D.] first published a german language version in 2003 in 'Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie', and an english language version in 2004 in the Permanente Journal. I've yet to see a refutation. Felitti was the Co-Primary Researcher of the US CDC/Kaiser-Permanente ACE [Adverse Childhood Experiences] Study. Their 'Screening tool' was later adopted and expanded upon by the World Health Organization (the WHO ACE International Questionnaire-available on the WHO website in over 100 languages), which WHO used in their 2013 assessment of the world's healthiest children (Canada ranked 26th among developed nations, the US ranked only 25th, Netherlands ranked #1). www.acesconnection.com is now an international 'collaborative' organization addressing this with about 25,000 members.

Shery Mead, Chris Hanson,et al., now based in the Burlington, Vermont/USA area with "Intentional Peer Support" have done trainings as far west as Japan and New Zealand, that I know of. They may have some relevant items for you, too.

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User profile image Betty-Lou - EENet Yoda Master

Thank you Robert

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User profile image Robert Olcott - EENet Yoda Master
Betty-Lou Kristy posted:

Thank you Robert

Betty Lou, It just dawned on me that David Burns, M.D.'s workbook: "Ten Days to Self-Esteem: ..." may have surveys, tools, etc. that address the concerns you raise. And if not, Shery Mead, et al., at [trauma-informed] "Intentional Peer-Support", now headquartered in the Burlington, Vermont area (they had a website, last I checked), may have tools to assess: "Mutuality", "Connection", and other core values of peer support. Hope that helps your task!

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User profile image Betty-Lou - EENet Yoda Master

You rock Robert.

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User profile image Betty-Lou - EENet Yoda Master

Thank you!

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