“…However, we include them here in the spirit of sharing the experiences (including the pitfalls) of developing innovative methods to evaluate innovative services to reduce recurrent care proceedings. This is relatively uncharted territory in the sense that, methodologically, it falls between a mature literature on psychologically informed parenting interventions (see, for example, van der Ende, van Busschbach, Nicholson, Korevaar, & van Weeghel, 2014;Stratton et al, 2010Stratton et al, , 2014) and a mature literature on psychologically informed empowerment interventions (see, for example, Rogers, Ralph, & Salzer, 2010;Rogers et al, 1997). One clear lesson here is that, as evaluators, we needed to be more mindful of the potentially disempowering effects of methods intended to evidence empowerment.…”