ABSTRACT

There has been an increased focus on utilizing critical consciousness-focused interventions to address complex, multidimensional socio-cultural problems, particularly health inequities. These interventions usually incorporate a critical dialogue component. However, there’s little guidance on how to implement, facilitate and evaluate critical dialogue to develop critical consciousness (i.e., reflecting and acting on sociopolitical inequities). This conceptual paper: 1) introduces critical dialogue and the tools used to implement critical dialogue from the literature; 2) details the development of the Community Wise intervention to present how Community Wise incorporated a critical dialogue component; 3) provides a brief overview of a proposed framework of critical consciousness development that the critical dialogue component of Community Wise could support; 4) provides an anecdotal exploration of the critical dialogue sessions used in the first pilot test of the intervention through the proposed framework of Transformative Consciousness; and 5) suggests practice guidelines for group work that incorporates facilitated critical dialogue.

摘要

人们越来越关注利用以意识为中心的批判性干预措施来解决复杂的、多维的社会文化问题，尤其是健康不平等问题。这些干预措施通常包含一个关键的对话部分。然而，关于如何实施、促进和评估批判性对话以培养批判性意识（即反思和应对社会政治不平等）的指导很少。这份概念性文件：1) 介绍批判性对话和用于实施文献中批判性对话的工具；2) 详细介绍Community Wise干预的发展，以展示Community Wise如何加入了一个重要的对话部分；3) 简要概述了Community Wise的批判性对话组件可以支持的批判性意识发展拟议框架；4) 通过拟议的变革意识框架，提供对干预的第一次试点测试中使用的关键对话会议的轶事探索；5) 建议小组工作的实践指南，其中包含促进的批判性对话。