Client-centered evaluation : new models for helping professionals /
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| Author / Creator: | Bloom, Martin, 1934- |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Allyn & Bacon, c2012. |
| Description: | xiii, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8359208 |
Table of Contents:
- (C-CEP) AND SINGLE-SYSTEM DESIGN (SSD)
- Chapter 1. Introduction of Client-Centered Evaluation of Practice
- A New Approach to Evaluating Practice
- Case Study: Phillip, an obese 10-year-old boy with diabetes who just wants "to be like the other guys in my class"
- Eight Steps in Evaluating Practice
- Identify the client who defines the goals in the case
- Select intermediary objectives and their specific targets
- Identify evidence-based general practice from the literature and evaluation-informed specific practice from working with the client
- Collect data in an on-going basis and plot data on graphs
- Construct clear benchmarks to know when the results are (or are not) successful
- Engage the client in determining if the client's goals have been attained during intervention
- Introduce a maintenance phase in which the client is in complete control of the intervention on his/her own
- Analyze patterns of data to coordinate with the client's statements
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 2. Conceptualization: Naming What We See in the Client Situation
- A Case Study as Introduction to Conceptualization: Ben and Kat (for Katherine) Washington
- Goals: Described in terms of concepts, propositions, and theories
- Objectives and Targets: the aims of our plans of action
- Empirical Evidence as Bases of Plans of Action
- Definitions, Operational and Conceptual: Agreeing on the terms of the plan of action
- Chapter Summary
- Part II. Measurement: Attaching Numbers to Waht we see in the Client Situation
- Chapter 3. The Issues: Measurement Theory; Validity; Reliability; Error Messages; Sustainability
- Measurement Theory: Connecting concepts to the client's reality
- Validity
- Face validity
- Content validity
- Criterion validity
- Construct validity
- Client validity
- Reliability
- Interobserver reliability
- Test-retest reliability
- Alternate-forms reliability
- Internal consistency
- Error Messages in Measurement
- Time and Sustainability
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 4. Graphing: the Basics; Exceptions to the Rules
- Case Study: Rick Alverez and his "walking support group"
- Graphing Basics: the Rules
- Graphing Exceptions to the Rule
- Using Graphs to Monitor Data and Interpret Outcomes
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 5. Information Retrieval: Finding General Evidence-Based Practice Information
- Case Study: Finding information on self-efficacy for Rick Alverez
- Evidence-based General Practice and Information-informed Specific Practice
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 6. Individualized Rating Scales (IRS) and Structured Logs
- Introduction to Individualized Rating Scales (IRS): Nature and construction
- Introduction to Structured Logs: Nature and construction
- Case Study: Mr. and Mrs. Angus Ferguson and the issue of continuing care retirement communities
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 7. Behavioral Observations
- The Nature of Behaviors
- Case Study: Evaluating the prevention of unwanted teenage pregnancy at a school health clinic using behavioral observations
- Methods of Observing Behavior in Others: Principles of seeing
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 8. Standardized Rating Scales
- Case Study: Mrs. Cornelia Vanderveen, an older woman in need of protective care
- My (MB) Experiences in Developing and Testing a Standardized Rating Scale: the Benjamin Rose Institute Protective Care Study
- Selecting a Standardized Rating Scale for Your Specific Purposes
- Administering and Scoring a Standardized Rating Scale
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Standardized Rating Scales
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 9. Qualitative Data in Single-System Designs: Self-Monitoring
- The Place of Qualitative Information in a Quantitative World: Self-monitoring
- The narrative approach
- Positive psychology and the strengths perspective
- A New Idea in Single-System Evaluation: Global assessment
- Case Study: Problems for Ahmed Beddin, a religious man in a foreign culture
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 10. Measurement Cautions
- Case Study: Measuring outcomes in a women's support group
- Unobtrusive and Non-reactive Measures
- Archival records
- Behavioral observations
- Unobtrusive observations
- Physical traces
- Measuring the Impact of the Physical Environment on Client Concerns
- Ethical Issues (Socio-cultural, Gender, Orientation, Status Issues)
- Chapter Summary
- Part III. Evaluation Basics: Baselines, Designs, Analyses, and Decision Making
- Chapter 11. Baselining and the Beginning of Evaluated Practice
- Case Study: Bullying in the school
- Baselining: Great possibilities
- Concurrent Baselining: Possibility fulfilled
- Reconstructed Baseline: the best we can do under the circumstances
- Patterns among Baselines in Multiple Graphs
- A World without Baselines: the emperor's new clothes
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 12. ABM Design
- Purpose
- On Your Mark
- Some History of the Case Study
- Logical Changes to Provide Scientific Grounds of Practice
- Get Set
- AB designs
- Strengths of AB designs
- Limitations of AB designs
- Go: ABM designs
- Case Study Using an ABM Design: Jesse, the runner
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 13. Advanced Designs
- Introduction to Simplicity in Talking about Complex Subjects
- ABA Design
- M added to ABA Design: the ABAM Design
- ABAB and ABABM Designs
- Multiple Baseline Designs
- Multiple Baseline Designs with Maintenance Phases
- The BAB and BABM Designs: Emergency designs
- Other Advanced Designs
- The changing intensity design
- The alternating intervention design
- Multiple target design, a fake advanced design: Careful, but keep using M
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 14. Analysis of Data: A Systemic and Holistic Approach
- Overview of Six Methods of Analysis
- Method #1
- Method #2
- Method # 3
- Method #4
- Method #5
- Method #6
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 15. Decision Making
- What is Decision Making?
- Case Study: the family repercussions of military deployment
- Chapter Summary