Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Concept Mapping	Community Needs Assessment
Πεδίο	Social Work	Social Work
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1989	1972
Δημιουργός	William M. K. Trochim	Social-planning tradition; need typology by Jonathan Bradshaw
Τύπος	Mixed-method structured group conceptualization producing a visual cluster map	Systematic assessment of the unmet needs of a community or population
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Trochim, W. M. K. (1989). An introduction to concept mapping for planning and evaluation. Evaluation and Program Planning, 12(1), 1–16.	Bradshaw, J. (1972). A taxonomy of social need. In G. McLachlan (Ed.), Problems and Progress in Medical Care: Essays on Current Research, 7th Series (pp. 71–82). Oxford University Press.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Group Concept Mapping, Structured Conceptualization, Trochim Concept Mapping, Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation	Needs Assessment, Community Needs Analysis, Needs Assessment Survey, Community Assessment
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	Concept mapping, in the structured sense developed by William Trochim, is a mixed-method process that lets a group develop a shared conceptual framework on a topic and represent it as a visual map. Participants generate statements about a focus question, sort them into thematic piles, and rate them; multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis then turn those sortings into a two-dimensional map of clustered ideas. Widely used in social-work and human-services planning and evaluation, it combines the openness of group brainstorming with the rigor of quantitative analysis to surface and structure stakeholder thinking.	A community needs assessment is a systematic process for identifying, documenting, and prioritizing the unmet needs of a community or population in order to plan programs, allocate resources, and justify funding. It draws on multiple kinds of evidence — statistical indicators, what people say they need, the services they actually seek, and comparisons with other areas — and a guiding typology, such as Jonathan Bradshaw's four types of social need, helps assessors recognize that 'need' is not a single, self-evident quantity but a judgment that depends on whose definition and which standard is applied.