RESEARCH REPORT Developing a practical evaluation guide for behaviour change programs involving perpetrators of domestic and family violence
This project developed a guide for evaluating behaviour change programs for men who use domestic and family violence.
Following on from the ANROWS-funded project Evaluation readiness, program quality and outcomes in men’s behaviour change programs, this research updated existing evidence on best practice principles and guidelines for evaluating complex interventions, as well as reviewing a number of validated tools that could be used to evaluate men’s change and women’s and children’s safety.
The development of the practical evaluation guide was informed by three main activities: a literature review, case study examples and ongoing input from a review panel.
The evaluation guide is pitched at men’s behaviour change practitioners who might be conducting an in-house evaluation, as well as funders, practitioners or practice designers who might be commissioning an external evaluation.
Publication details
This work is part of the ANROWS Research reports series. ANROWS Research reports (Horizons) are in-depth reports on empirical research produced under ANROWS’s research program.
Authors
DR ANGELA NICHOLAS
Centre for Mental Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
DR GEORGIA OVENDEN
Centre for Mental Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
RODNEY VLAIS
Consultant
ISBN: 978-1-925925-49-4 (print) | 978-1-925925-50-0 (online)
120 pp.
Suggested citation
Nicholas, A., Ovenden, G., & Vlais, R. (2020). Developing a practical evaluation guide for behaviour change programs involving perpetrators of domestic and family violence (Research report, 17/2020). Sydney: ANROWS.