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Now with a free SINGWIN CD-ROM, Evaluating Practice, Fourth Edition is even easier for readers to understand and apply data analysis. Unsurpassed among human service evaluation books, Evaluating Practice, Fourth Edition, includes the innovative SINGWIN program, created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Yeshiva University. Evaluating Practice instructs readers on managing cases and charting and filling out scales. Although the authors are best known within the social work discipline, this book can also be used in other professional programs such as nursing, counseling, psychology, and psychiatry. The free supplement with practice test questions provides a number of helpful exercises. For anyone interested in social work at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Also for those interested in psychology, counseling, psychiatry, or psychiatric nursing.
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Both qualitative and quantitative approaches to evaluation are covered in this text/CD-ROM package. Coverage includes conceptualizing and measuring targets and objectives, evaluating designs, analyzing results, and single-system designs. Examples, illustrations, and step- by-step screen captured instructions prepare students for using evaluation materials. This fourth edition contains integrated material on managed care responses, group evaluation, and primary prevention, and highlights newer forms of practice, including micropractice. The CD-ROM contains SINGWIN, a software package designed to help practitioners assess the effectiveness of interventions using visual and statistical analysis. Bloom is affiliated with the University of Connecticut. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780205342617
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/1/1902
  • Edition description: 4TH BK&CDR
  • Edition number: 4
  • Pages: 672
  • Product dimensions: 7.02 (w) x 9.64 (h) x 1.35 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue 1
Pt. I What Are You Getting Into? 33
1 Integrating Evaluation and Practice 35
Pt. II Conceptualizing and Measuring Targets and Objectives/Goals 55
2 Basic Principles of Conceptualization and Measurement 57
3 Specifying Problems and Goals 86
4 Developing a Measurement and Recording Plan 116
5 Behavioral Observation 163
6 Individualized Rating Scales 194
7 Standardized Questionnaires 211
8 Logs 277
9 Reactivity and Nonreactive Measures 296
10 Selecting a Measure 312
Pt. III Evaluation Designs 325
11 Basic Principles of Single-System Designs 327
12 Baselining 364
13 From the Case Study to the Basic Single-System Design: A-B 380
14 The Experimental Single-System Designs: A-B-A, A-B-A-B, B-A-B 400
15 Multiple Designs for Single Systems 428
16 Changing Intensity Designs and Successive Intervention Designs 458
17 Complex and Combined Designs 481
18 Selecting a Design 496
Pt. IV Analyzing Your Results 513
19 Basic Principles of Analysis 515
20 Visual Analysis of Single-System Design Data 554
21 Descriptive Statistics 569
22 Tests of Statistical Significance for Single-System Designs 595
23 Computer Analysis of Single-System Design Data 614
24 Selecting a Procedure for Analyzing Data 651
Pt. V The Challenge of Single-System Designs 657
25 Not for Practitioners Alone 659
References 689
Name Index 713
Subject Index 719
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  • Posted March 23, 2009

    Good research text.

    I purchased this book because it was a requirement for a graduate social work course. Heavy on research.

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