Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional

Evaluating 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. Ethical guidelines for practice evaluation are infused throughout. 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 (created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Yeshiva University); the CASS and CAAP programs for managing cases and scoring scales (created by Walter Hudson); and a NEW set of Microsoft Excel Workbooks and interactive exercises.

Highlights of the Fifth Edition

• Improved and expanded CD-ROM contains the following items: Microsoft Excel Workbooks that illustrate how to graph and analyze single-system design data, score standardized scales, and understand contextualized, response-guided, single-system design practice; 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 Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that correspond to material covered in this new edition.
• CD-ROM also contains SIGNIFICANT updates to SINGWIN including the incorporation of the latest statistical procedures designed for analyzing single-system designdata.

What reviewers are saying. . .

“The three strengths of this text are its comprehensiveness and depth, lucid writing and practice relevance. It’s so good that I cannot even suggest any broad improvements. I love this book.”
Allen Rubin, University of Texas at Austin

“This is the most accurate, comprehensive text available on single subject evaluation and it is also highly readable and engaging.”
Wanda Spaid, Brigham Young University

Booknews

New edition of a text which presents to students and practitioners in the helping professions the knowledge, skills, and procedures to evaluate their own practices. Focuses on single-system designs, which are systematic ways of analyzing, measuring, and evaluating practice, with an emphasis upon conceptualizing and measuring client and client/system targets and goals, designing an evaluation, and analyzing the ongoing data to supply corrective feedback. Provides both research and practical background for such methods. Includes two personal computer programs in the Windows format designed to assist practitioners. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.