Download or read book Mental Health Outcome Evaluation written by David C. Speer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1998-02-09 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Health Outcome Evaluation bridges the gap between traditional research and evaluation methods by presenting an alternative to the highly technical and statistical methods developed in the laboratory for mental health care professionals. It focuses on outcome evaluation of mental health services for adults, concentrating on the general principles that can be used to assess the service effectiveness of community health centers, clinics, and private practices. The book presents a formidable argument for descriptive outcome studies through its evaluation of the results and consequences of care and treatment as well as clinician ratings. It is written in a non-technical style, making it accessible to anyone in the mental health industry. Addresses industry efforts to monitor and assess information about results and consequences of mental health care and treatment Evaluates use of clinician ratings as outcome information Offers accessible general principles for managers and mental health services researchers Presents the best argument for descriptive outcome studies
Download or read book Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment written by Steven I Pfeiffer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As residential treatment centers and psychiatric hospitals are increasingly asked to document their effectiveness, it is essential for mental health care providers to demonstrate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the services they provide. Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment helps health care providers demonstrate that their planned treatment is necessary and active rather than simply custodial. A practitioner’s guide to conducting treatment outcome assessment projects, this innovative book presents readers with historical perspectives, current issues, and practical suggestions for implementing an outcome assessment project. Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment guides psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, and social program administrators in addressing which therapeutic components contribute to the goals and objectives of their programs and which may require modification, radical revision, or even elimination. It helps residential treatment centers and psychiatric treatment facilities document treatment successes and better understand which factors (within the client, family, environment, treatment setting, or combinations therein) predict successful outcome. This objective data empowers readers to influence government and industry, enhance public awareness of the needs of severely disturbed children and youth, and validate the usefulness of intensive psychiatric treatment. Unlike other books on treatment outcome, Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment tells readers how to determine clinically significant improvement and not simply statistically significant change. It gives practical, detailed, proven advice on how to carry out studies that will benefit residential treatment centers and the psychiatric and mental health fields. Contributors provide tools to validate/demonstrate that psychiatric and mental health treatments are effective. They offer insight into: planning a treatment outcome project recognizing ethical, practical, methodological, logistical, and clinical considerations in implementing a treatment outcome project selecting instruments to assess treatment outcome and measuring success comparing different outcome measures Health care providers must have accurate information about treatment outcomes to demonstrate that specific services are beneficial, cost-effective, and well-received by the client. Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment helps readers evaluate the impact a treatment program has on a client’s clinical status and psychosocial and educational functioning, making it possible to provide an objective yardstick for the payer’s evaluation of the quality of care provided. Psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, and social program administrators will find Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment an essential guide to evaluating and understanding the relative effects of specific interventions or procedures on the quality and effectiveness of their services. They will use this information to make appropriate changes which guarantee that they best meet their clients’mental health care needs.
Download or read book Client Outcome Evaluation in Mental Health Centers written by Southern Regional Education Board and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impacts Of Program Evaluation On Mental Health Care written by Emil J Posavac and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1979-05-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Health Outcome Measures written by Graham Thornicroft and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Health Outcome Measures provides an authoritative review of measurement scales currently available to assess the outcomes of mental health service intervention. The excerpt of summaries by leading writers in the field assess the contributions of scale in areas including mental state examination, quality of life, patient satisfaction, needs assessments, measurement of service cost, global functioning scales, and social disability. These chapters provide a critical appraisal of how far such scales have been shown to be reliable and valid, and provide valuable insights in to their ease of use. This book will provide an invaluable reference manual for those who want to take research on mental health services, and for those who need to interpret this research for policy, planning, and clinical practice.
Download or read book Outcome Evaluation of the Mental Health Initiative written by Michael Eisenberg (Researcher) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward Client Outcome Evaluation in Systems of Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Community Mental Health Services written by Isabel Davidoff and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.
Download or read book Essentials of Outcome Assessment written by Benjamin M. Ogles and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-04-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors are the leading experts in outcome assessment. * Call-out boxes, bullet points, icons, and other reader-friendly design elements are used extensively throughout the text. * Written in an engaging, easy-reference style.
Download or read book Outcome Measures and Evaluation in Counselling and Psychotherapy written by Chris Evans and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets in context the role of outcome measurement research - taking you step-by-step through the research process and beyond to consider the wider professional and ethical issues involved. This book will provide you with everything you need to know and more, helping you develop the skills and knowledge you need to become a successful research-informed practitioner. Written for trainees and counselling and psychotherapy practitioners, this book: - Provides you with a brief overview and history of research and measurement in mental health contexts. - Sets out a framework for understanding the core features of outcome measures and their scope. - Takes you step-to-step through the process of implementing a SMART outcome evaluation. - Addresses the benefits and limitations of outcome measures research for the individual client, practitioner and service provider. Packed full of case studies, activities and tools for real-life practice, this book throws a life belt to all counselling and psychotherapy trainees and practitioners looking to make the best start in their research-informed career. Chris Evans is Visiting Professor at the University of UDLA, Ecuador and an Honorary Professor at the University of Roehampton. Jo-anne Carlyle is Director of PSYCTC.com
Download or read book Outcome Based Evaluation written by Robert L. Schalock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outcome-based evaluation continues to play a central role in the larger field of policy analysis and speaks to the needs and interests of administrators, students, policymakers, funders, consumers, and educators. In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1995, the author broadens the coverage from his previous emphasis on developmental disabilities to include other areas of human and social service delivery such as education, health, mental health, aging, substance abuse, and corrections.
Download or read book Outcome Evaluation of the Adult Outpatient Mental Health Program Southwest Community Mental Health Center Las Cruces New Mexico written by Frances Mable Ainslie and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Client outcome Program Evaluation and Functional Role Analysis in a Community Mental Health Clinic written by Ruth Eloise Shirley and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the study was to: (1) test a client-outcome evaluation methodology in a community mental health clinic, (2) relate a measure of clients' recent life change to client outcomes, (3) relate functions staff perform for clients to staff mental health profession and to client outcomes, and (4) suggest directions for further exploration of relationships between therapist style and client outcomes on the basis of interview and anecdotal data collected from clients and staff. It was intended that results of the study be used to assist in mental health worker education and to improve program evaluation in mental health, education, and other human services. The Denver Community Mental Health Outcome Questionnaire (DCMHOQ) was administered to 33 adult and teen-aged clients at admission and again after three visits or three months. Clients were also rated by staff on a check-list purporting to measure the same dimensions. During the post-interview, clients responded to an adaptation of Holmes' Schedule of Recent Experience (SRE), which contains a scale for measuring social readjustment required by selected recent life events. During the three-month experimental period, clinic staff monitored the amount of time they spent performing functions for client subjects, using direct service functional role categories developed by a 1969 Southern Regional Education Board symposium on mental health manpower utilization. No conclusions were drawn regarding the clinic's treatment effects because of weaknesses in the study design. Both DCMHOQ and staff checklist were sensitive to quantitative changes in psychological distress and social system use; the staff checklist was also sensitive to changes in interpersonal isolation. Neither instrument demonstrated changes in substance abuse or trouble with the law; both demonstrated equal levels of client satisfaction. The staff checklist was more sensitive to pre- post- changes, presumably because it permitted attention to qualitative variables. Further definition of outcomes expected of mental health services at societal and individual client levels was recommended. A multi-faceted approach to client outcome program evaluation was suggested to help balance single methodology deficiencies. Recent life change scores were extremely variable, but were not related to client outcomes or to the amount of time staff spent with clients. A more suitable instrument needs to be developed for low socio-economic clinic populations, incorporating appropriate items and an interview format. Serious difficulties with the functional role classification system resulted in data distortion and loss. Information gathered was not of sufficient quality to permit comparisons with client outcomes or to be useful for detailed curriculum planning. It was found that evaluation and broadly-defined behavior changing are central direct service functions of the community mental health clinic. Workers from all mental health disciplines perform common functional roles, but they devote different proportions of their direct service time to various roles. There are more differences in workers' time distribution within mental health professions than between professions. Functional roles traditionally characteristic of specific mental health professions are performed more frequently, by members of those professions than by other mental health workers, but there is much variation between individual practitioners. The nature of the client population and/or length and closeness of staff working relationships may be more influential in determining staff time distribution among functional roles than professional background. Staff satisfied with their perceived time distribution tend to possess more formal and informal power. Two directions were suggested for further exploration of relationships between therapist style and client outcomes: (1) examination of organizational and administrative characteristics of mental health agencies, and (2) exploration of therapists' beliefs about the causes and cures of emotional disorder and about professionalism.
Download or read book Outcome Evaluation of Psychological Services in the Schools written by Phyllis S. Hansell and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance and usefulness of assessing student goal attainment, steps required to select intervention goals, and several goal attainment measurement systems.
Download or read book Outcome Based Evaluation written by Robert L. Schalock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of 30 years of experience with program evalua tion. During this time, both service recipients and educational and social programs have experienced major cultural and political shifts in service delivery philosophy, including a focus on quality, mainstreaming, deinsti tutionalization, community inclusion, and an emphasis on measurable outcomes. Recently stakeholders of these programs have demanded more than just the provision of service, forcing program administrators to evalu ate their programs' effectiveness and efficiency. The "era of accoun tability" is here, and my major goal in writing this book is to help current and future program administrators understand that they need to look beyond simply the provision of service. Indeed, they need to be competent in outcome-based evaluation, which I define as a type of program evaluation that uses valued and objective person-referenced outcomes to analyze a program's effectiveness, impact or benefit-cost. By design, this book can be read from the perspective of a consumer or producer of outcome-based evaluation. As a consumer, the reader will be introduced to the various techniques used in outcome-based evaluation and how to interpret data from outcome-based evaluation analyses. As a producer, the reader will be instructed in how to do outcome-based evalu ation analyses, along with how to use and act on their results. For both the consumer and producer, two questions should guide the use of outcome based evaluation.
Download or read book Comprehensive Mental Health the Challenge of Evaluation written by Leigh M. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
