Improving outcomes for children and families : finding and using international evidence /

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This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking outcome-based evaluation of child and family services. It introduces the key ideas and issues currently being debated in the evaluation of these services and provides examples of evaluation from...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maluccio, Anthony N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
Colección:Child welfare outcomes (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
Temas:
Child welfare > Evaluation.
Family services > Evaluation.
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Services aux familles > Évaluation.
Social Research & Statistics.
Child Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Child welfare > Evaluation
Family services > Evaluation
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Evaluating outcomes for children and families : improving the evidence base.
  • Improving the evidence base / Anthony N. Maluccio [and others]
  • Demystifying evidence in child welfare / Nina Biehal
  • Unlocking the mysteries of program evaluation : lessons from a comprehensive evaluation of an innovative program to reunify families / Barbara A. Pine and Robin Spath
  • pt. II. Methods for finding and using evidence.
  • Evaluating complexity in community-based programs / Anita Lightburn and Chris Warren-Adamson
  • Approaches to evaluation in services for families and children / Cinzia Canali, Anthony N. Maluccio and Tiziano Vecchiato
  • Understanding the nature, structure and context of services in family support centres / Marianne Berry and Colleen Reed
  • In their own words : alumni of foster care in the US talk about preparation for independent living / Anne Nicoll [and others]
  • The challenge of using administrative data in cross-national evaluations of services in out-of-home care / June Thoburn.
  • pt. III. Evaluating outcomes in the real world : international evidence from community-based practice.
  • Taking standardised programmes to different cultural contexts : an example from Scotland / Jane Aldgate and Wendy Rose
  • Child physical abuse and neglect : risk assessment and evaluation of early prevention programmes / Hans Grietens
  • Identifying outcomes at the Sunshine Family Centre in Outer London / Marian Brandon
  • The important place of professional relationship : a case study of an Israeli family / Anat Zeira
  • Evaluation of sensitised practice in a community centre in Aotearoa, New Zealand / Robyn Munford, Jackie Sanders, and Bruce Maden
  • Assessing practice in a child and family centre in Australia / Patricia M. McNamara
  • Afterword. Cross-national perspectives and ideas / Mark Ezell.

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