caa a22 4500 606211640 CHVBK 20210128101039.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10615-014-0507-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10615-014-0507-0 Measuring Difficult-to-Measure Concepts in Clinical Social Work Practice Operationalizing Psychosocial Well-Being Among War-Affected Women: A Case Study in Northern Uganda [Elektronische Daten] [Martha Bragin, Janepher Taaka, Kelsey Adolphs, Hannah Gray, Tonka Eibs] This article addresses the question of how to define, operationalize, and measure psychological and social well-being. Well-being is a concept central to successful outcomes in clinical social work practice, and its promotion is a goal of the profession, yet it is rarely taken into account when we develop evidence-based practices. The complexity of the construct has led to it being described in the literature as "unmeasurable” (Corlazzoli and White in Measuring the un-measurable: solutions to measurement challenges in fragile and conflict-affected environments. Department for International Development (DFID), London, 2013). This article describes and discusses a participatory study of 649 conflict-affected women in a post-conflict region of Northern Uganda that used grounded theory to define and operationalize this concept from the standpoint of women program participants for the purpose of future monitoring and evaluation. The results indicated that poor and often marginalized conflict-affected women were able to envision, articulate, and describe their future well-being, with implications for other populations experiencing severe adversity. The study resulted in the development of a practical method to evaluate the effectiveness of future programs from the standpoint of program participants. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Hard-to-measure concepts nationallicence Psychosocial well-being nationallicence Post-conflict nationallicence Women nationallicence Participatory research nationallicence Northern Uganda nationallicence Trauma nationallicence Bragin Martha Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY, 2180 3rd Ave., 10035, New York, NY, USA aut Taaka Janepher Dan Church Aid, Kampala, Uganda aut Adolphs Kelsey Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY, 2180 3rd Ave., 10035, New York, NY, USA aut Gray Hannah Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY, 2180 3rd Ave., 10035, New York, NY, USA aut Eibs Tonka UNICEF, Pristina, Kosovo aut Clinical Social Work Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/4(2015-12-01), 348-361 0091-1674 43:4<348 2015 43 10615 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-014-0507-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-014-0507-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bragin Martha Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY, 2180 3rd Ave., 10035, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Taaka Janepher Dan Church Aid, Kampala, Uganda aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Adolphs Kelsey Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY, 2180 3rd Ave., 10035, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gray Hannah Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY, 2180 3rd Ave., 10035, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eibs Tonka UNICEF, Pristina, Kosovo aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clinical Social Work Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/4(2015-12-01), 348-361 0091-1674 43:4<348 2015 43 10615