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Client-Centered Evaluation: New Models for Helping Professionals provides a new statistics-free approach to the evaluation of practice in various helping professions, built on the foundations of single-system designs.

Preface, xi

Acknowledgments, xiii

Part 1. Client-Centered Evaluation of Practice (C-CEP) and Single-System Designs (SSD), 1

Chapter 1. Introduction to Client-Centered Evaluation of Practice, 3

A New Approach to Evaluating Practice, 3

Case Study: Phillip, a 10-Year-Old Boy Who is Diabetic and Obese Who Just Wants “to Be Like the Other Guys in My Class”, 4

Eight Steps in Evaluating Practice, 5

Identify the Client Who Defines the Goals in the Case, 5

Select Intermediary Objectives and Their Specific Targets, 5

Identify Evidence-Based General Practice From the Literature and Evaluation-Informed Specific Practice From Working With the Client, 6

Collect Data in an Ongoing Basis and Plot Data on Graphs, 7

Construct Clear Benchmarks to Know When the Results Are (or Are Not) Successful, 7

Engage the Client in Determining if the Client’s Goals Have Been Attained During Intervention, 9

Introduce a Maintenance Phase in Which the Client is in Complete Control of the Intervention on His or Her Own, 9

Analyze Patterns of Data to Coordinate With the Client’s Statements, 11

Chapter Summary, 11

Chapter 2. Conceptualization: Naming What We See in the Client Situation, 13

Case Study: Introduction to Conceptualization—Ben and Kat Washington, 13

Goals: Described in Terms of Concepts, Propositions, and Theories, 14

Objectives and Targets: The Aims of Our Plans of Action, 17

Empirical Evidence as Bases of Plans of Action, 18

Definitions, Operational and Conceptual: Agreeing on the Terms of the Plan of Action, 19

Chapter Summary, 20

Part 2. Measurement: Attaching Numbers to the Client Situation, 21

Chapter 3. The Issues: Measurement Theory; Validity; Reliability; Error Messages; Sustainability, 23

Measurement Theory: Connecting Concepts to the Client’s Reality, 23

Validity, 25

Face Validity, 26

Content Validity, 26

Criterion Validity, 26

Construct Validity, 27

Client Validity, 27

Reliability, 27

Interobserver Reliability, 28

Test-Retest Reliability, 29

Alternate-Forms Reliability, 29

Internal Consistency, 29

Error Messages in Measurement, 29

Time and Sustainability, 30

Chapter Summary, 30

Chapter 4. Graphing: The Basics; Exceptions to the Rules, 31

Case Study: Rick Alverez and His “Walking Support Group”, 31

Graphing Basics: The Rules, 33

Rule 1: Draw a Graph with Horizontal and Vertical Axes, 34

Rule 2: Labeling the Graph, 34

Rule 3: Adding Data Points to the Graph, 34

Graphing Exceptions to the Rule, 34

Using Graphs to Monitor Data and Interpret Outcomes, 35

Chapter Summary, 39

Chapter 5. Information Retrieval: Finding General Evidence-Based Practice Information, 41

Case Study: Finding Information on Self-Efficacy for Rick Alverez, 41

Evidence-Based General Practice and Information-Informed Specific Practice, 46

Chapter Summary, 48

Chapter 6. Individualized Rating Scales (IRS) and Structured Logs, 51

Introduction to Individualized Rating Scales (IRS): Nature and Construction, 51

Introduction to Structured Logs: Nature and Construction, 53

Case Study: Mr. and Mrs. Angus Ferguson and the Issue of Continuing Care Retirement Communities, 56

Chapter Summary, 58

Chapter 7. Behavioral Observations, 59

The Nature of Behaviors, 59

Case Study: Evaluating the Prevention of Unwanted Teenage Pregnancy at a School Health Clinic Using Behavioral Observations, 63

Methods of Observing Behavior in Others: Principles of Seeing, 65

Chapter Summary, 67

Chapter 8. Standardized Rating Scales, 69

Case Study: Mrs. Cornelia Vanderveen, an Older Woman in Need of Protective Care, 69

My (MB) Experiences in Developing and Testing a Standardized Rating Scale: The Benjamin Rose Institute Protective Care Study, 72

Selecting, Administering, and Scoring a Standardized Rating Scale for Your Specific Purposes, 76

Chapter Summary, 78

Chapter 9. Qualitative Data in Single-System Designs: Self-Monitoring, 79

The Place of Qualitative Information in a Quantitative World: Self-Monitoring, 79

The Narrative Approach, 80

Positive Psychology and the Strengths Perspective, 80

A New Idea in Single-System Evaluation: Global Assessment, 82

Case Study: Problems for Professor Ahmed V., a Religious Man in a Foreign Culture, 82

Chapter Summary, 86

Chapter 10. Measurement Cautions, 87

Case Study: Measuring Outcomes in a Women’s Support Group, 87

Unobtrusive and Non-Reactive Measures, 89

Archival Records, 90

Behavioral Products, 90

Unobtrusive Observations, 91

Physical Traces, 91

Measuring the Impact of the Physical Environment on Client Concerns, 92

Ethical Issues (Socio-Cultural, Gender, Orientation, Status Issues), 94

Chapter Summary, 94

Part 3. Evaluation Basics: Baselines, Designs, Analyses, and Decision Making, 95

Chapter 11. Baselining and the Beginning of Evaluated Practice, 97

Case Study: Bullying in the School, 97

Baselining: Great Possibilities, 98

Concurrent Baselining: Possibility Fulfilled, 98

Reconstructed Baselining: The Best We Can Do Under the Circumstances, 101

Patterns Among Baselines in Multiple Graphs, 102

A World Without Baselines: The Emperor’s New Clothes, 102

Chapter Summary, 103

Chapter 12. AB*M** Design, 105

Purpose, 105

On Your Mark, 105

Some History of the Case Study, 105

Logical Changes to Provide Scientific Grounds of Practice, 106

Get Set, 107

AB Designs, 107

Strengths of AB Designs, 110

Limitations of AB Designs, 110

Go: AB*M** Designs, 110

Case Study: Using an AB*M** Design—Jesse, the Runner, 111

Chapter Summary, 113

Chapter 13. Advanced Designs, 115

Introduction to Simplicity in Talking About Complex Subjects, 115

ABA Design, 116

The M Phase Added to the ABA Design: The ABAM Design, 117

ABAB and ABABM Designs, 119

Multiple Baseline Designs, 122

Multiple Baseline Designs With Maintenance Phases, 123

The BAB and BABM Designs: Emergency Designs, 125

Other Advanced Designs, 129

The Changing Intensity Design, 130

The Alternating Intervention Design, 131

The Multiple Target Design, a Fake Advanced Design: Careful, But Keep Using M, 132

Chapter Summary, 133

Chapter 14. Analysis of Data: A Systemic and Holistic Approach, —Martin Bloom, Kimberly J. Vannest, John L. Davis, and Preston A. Britner, 135

Overview of Six Methods of Analysis, 135

Method #1 Analysis Involving Targets: From the Client’s Perspective, 135

Method #2 Client Analysis of Goal Attainment: From the Client’s Perspective, 136

Method #3 Trend Analysis: What Graphed Data Patterns Have to Tell Us About the Course of an Intervention, 137

Method #4 Analysis Using Non-Overlapping Data Between Baseline and Intervention: Standing Back in Order to Get Closer to Underlying Abstract Entities, 142

Method #5 Statistical Analysis, 144

Method #6 Sustained Time Analysis: The Test of Time, 145

Chapter Summary, 145

Chapter 15. Decision Making, 147

What Is Decision Making?, 147

Case Study: Family Repercussions of Military Deployment, 149

Chapter Summary, 154

Glossary, 157

References and Other Sources, 165

Index, 169

Inside Front Cover, IFC-1

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