Evaluating Practice Guidelines for the Accountable Professional

Name: Evaluating Practice Guidelines for the Accountable Professional
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ISBN: 9780205466986

ISBN-10: 0205466982

ISBN-13: 9780205466986

Edition: 5th 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Martin Bloom, Joel Fischer, John G. Orme

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Evaluating Practice continues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available. Focusing on single-system designs, Evaluating Practice, Fifth Edition, presents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, using practice-oriented evaluation designs, and understanding and analyzing resulting client data. Ethical guidelines for practice evaluation are infused throughout. Evaluating Practive was written for students and practitioners in all of the human services, including social work, psychology counseling, nursing, and psychiatry.

Book details

List price: $132.20
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 744
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English



Preface


Prologue



What Are You Getting Into?



Integrating Evaluation and Practice


Introduction to Single-System Designs


What Are Single-System Designs?


Single-System Designs and Classical Resarch: 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 Trrgets 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 User's Guide



Installing Cass



Behavioral Observation


Introduction


General Guidelines for Behavioral Observation


Sampling Behaviors


Instruments for Recording Behaviors


Ensuring Accurate Observations


Methods of Recording Behavior


Analog Situations


Recording Behavior in Groups


Summary



Individualized Rating Scales


Introduction


Uses of Individualized Rating Scales


Constructing and Using Individualized Rating Scales


Summary



Standardized Scales


Introduction


What Are Standardized Scales?


Selecting a Standardized Scale


Administering a Standardized Scale


Some Available Standardized Self-Report Scales


Some Available Standardized Scales for Practitioners


Some Available Standardized Scales for Relevant Others


Some Available Standardized Scales for Independent Observers


Do-It-Yourself Scales


Using Standardized Scales in Groups


Computer Management of Standardized Scales


Summary


Appendix


Computer Assisted Assessment Package (CAAP): A User's Guide



Logs


Introduction


Types of Client Logs


Putting Qualitative and Quantitative Information Together


Introducing Clients to Logs


Practitioner Logs


Maximizing and Verifying the Reliability and Validity of Logs


Summary



Reactivity and Nonreactive Measures


Introduction


Reactivity of Measures


Unobtrusive (Nonreactive) Measures


Summary



Selecting a Measure


Introduction


Considerations in Deciding on a Measure


Use of Multiple Measures


Selecting a Measure


Summary



Evaluation Designs



Basic Principles of Single-System Designs


Introduction


An Example Connecting Practice and Evaluation Designs


Purposes of Single-System Designs


Unique Characteristics of Single-System Designs


Causality in Single-System Designs


External Validity and Generalizability


Overview of Single-System Designs


Summary



Baselining


Introduction


Purposes of the Baseline


Types of Baselines


How Long Should Baselining Continue?


When Are Baselines Not Necessary?


Issues Regarding Baselining


Summary



From the Case Study to the Basic Single-System Design: A-B


Introduction


Case Studies or Predesigns


Design A-B: The Basic Single-System Design


Summary



The Experimental Single-System Desings: A-B-A, A-B-A-B, B-A-B


Introduction


Basic Experimental Designs


Summary



Multiple Designs for Single Systems


Introduction


Multiple-Baseline Designs: Across Problems, Clients, or Settings


Multiple-Target Designs


Variations on Multiple Designs


Summary



Changing Intensity Designs and Successive Intervention Designs


Introduction


Changing Intensity Designs: A-B[superscript 1]-B[superscript 2]-B[superscript 3]


Successive Intervention Designs: A-B-C, A-B-A-C, A-B-A-C-A


Summary



Designs for Comparing Interventions


Introduction


Alternating Intervention Design: A-B/C-(B or C)


Interaction Design: A-B-A-B-BC-B-BC


Summary



Selecting a Design


Introduction


Framework for Selecting a Design


Needed: A Design for All Seasons


Creativity in Single-System Designs: Making Your Own Designs


Evaluation in Minimal-Contact Situations


Single-System Designs in Managed Care: The Stretch Design


Trouble-Shooting: "Okay, I Understand Everything That You Said, but My Case Is Different."


Summary



Analyzing Your Results



Basic Principles of Analysis


Introduction


Distinguishing Effort, Effectiveness, and Efficiency


Significance-Practical, Statical, and Theoretical


Evaluating Goal Achievement


Issues in Analysis of Data


Computer Analysis of Data for Single-System Designs


The Issue of Autocorrelation


Tools in Analysis of Data


Summary



Visual Analysis of Single-System Design Data


Introduction


Definition of Terms


Basic Patterns and Implications


Visual Inspection of Raw Data


Interpreting Ambiguous Patterns


Problems of Visual Inspection


Creating a Chart with SINGWIN


Summary



Descriptive Statistics


Introduction


Measures of Central Tendency


Measures of Variation


Using Measures of Central Tendency and Variability to Graph Group Data


Computing and Graphing Measures of Central Tendency and Variation with SINGWIN


Measures of Trend


Measures of Effect Size


Optimal Uses and Cautions for Specific Descriptive Statistics


Summary



Tests of Statistical Significance for Single-System Designs


Introduction


Proportion/Frequency Approach


Three-Standard-Deviation-Band Approach (X-Moving-Range-Chart)


Chi-Square


Conservative Dual-Criteria (CDC) Approach


t-Test


General Considerations in Using Tests of Statistical Significance


Optimal Uses and Cautions for Specific Analytic Procedures


Summary



Computer Analysis of Single-System Design Data


Chapter Overview


Starting SINGWIN


Exiting SINGWIN


Getting the Big Picture


Using Specific Procedures



Installing SINGWIN


Summary



Selecting a Procedure for Analyzing Data


Introduction


Framework for Selecting a Procedure for Analyzing Data


Other Statistical Considerations


Nonstatistical Considerations


Limitations


Summary



The Challenge of Single-System Designs



Not for Practitioners Alone


Introduction


Special Applications of Single-System Designs


Recent Criticisms of Single-System Evaluation


For the Client


For the Administrator


For Educators and Students