Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional (5th Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0205466982 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 744 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Specifically written for students and practitioners in all the human services, including social work, psychology, counseling, nursing and psychiatry. Focusing on single-system designs, Evaluating Practice, Fifth Edition, presents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation. Significant updates to SINGWIN (on CD-Rom), including the incorporation of new statistical procedures designed for ease of application. Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts for bringing clarity to evaluation procedures, Evaluating Practice comes 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 Yeshiva University), and the CASS and CAAP programs (created by Walter Hudson) for managing cases and scoring scales. The CD-ROM also contains a new "running case" that can be used interactively to try out concepts and procedures from the text. The improved and expanded CD-ROM contains an "Intervention Plan" form that can be used to develop a comprehensive intervention and evaluation plan of action that parallels chapters in the text. And the prologue offers an extensive case illustrating the
Useful but sometimes confusing I purchased this textbook for a graduate-level research class in an MSW program. It's certainly not the worst textbook I've ever used but not the best either. I found Chapter 1 to be particularly challenging because of the content and the layout of the pages (LOTS of text in block format). I honestly could not stay awake as I read Chapter 1. Even though I took a research class last year and was familiar with most of the terminology, I found that. "Five Stars" according to latrice jenkins. Great book highly recommended. Great Seller Quick delivery and book was in very good condition. I would definitely buy from this seller again.
Ethical guidelines for practice evaluation are infused throughout. From the Back CoverEvaluating Practice continues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available. Focusing on single-system designs, Evaluating Practice, 5/e, presents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, using practice-oriented evaluation designs, and understanding and analyzing resulting client data. Evaluating Practice was written for students and practitioners in all of the human services, including social work, psychology, counseling, nursing, and psychiatry. Evaluating Practice comes with a free CD-ROM featuring numerous programs, including the unique and innovative SINGWIN program for analyzing single-system design data