Evaluating Practice Guidelines for the Accountable Professional

by Bloom, Martin; Fischer, Joel; Orme, John G.

• ISBN13: 9780205612017
• ISBN10: 0205612016
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover w/CD
• Copyright: 2008-12-24
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Evaluating Practice Sixth Edition continues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available. Focusing on single-system designs,Evaluating Practice,6/epresents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation. It is specifically written for students and practitioners in all the human services, including social work, psychology, counseling, nursing and psychiatry. Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts for bringing clarity to evaluation procedures,Evaluating Practicecomes with a free CD-ROM featuring numerous programs, including the innovative SINGWIN program for analyzing data (created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Lehman College of the City University of New York, the CASS and CAAP programs (created by Walter Hudson) for managing cases and scoring scales and Microsoftcopy; Excel workbooks and interactive exercises.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

What Are You Getting Into?

Integrating Evaluation and Practice

Introduction to Single-System Designs

What Are Single-System Designs?

Evidence-Based Practice Single-System Designs and Classical Research

The Knowledge-Building Context

Single-System Evaluation, Qualitative Research, and Quantitative Research

Advantages of Using Single-System Designs in Practice

A Walk through the Evaluation Process

Summary

Conceptualizing and Measuring Targets and Objectives/Goals

Basic Principles of Conceptualization and Measurement

Introduction

What Is Conceptualization?

What Is Measurement?

Definition as a First Step in Measurement

Can Everything Be Measured?

Key Characteristics of All Measures

Summary

Specifying Problems and Goals

Introduction: From General Problems to Specific Targets of Intervention

Specifying Client Concerns: Identifying and Clarifying Problems and Potentials

Specifying Goals and Objectives Using Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) to Establish Goals

Setting Goals in Groups

Problems and Issues in Setting Goals

Summary

Developing a Measurement and Recording Plan

Introduction

Steps in Developing a Recording Plan

Charting: Putting Your Information on Graphs

Problem-Oriented Records (POR) Use of Computers in Evaluation and Practice

Summary

Computer Assisted Social Services (CASS): A Userrsquo;s Guide

Appendix: Installing CASS

Behavioral Observation

Introduction

General Guidelines for Behavioral Observation

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