Mullen, E.J. and Magnabosco, J., (Eds.) (in press).
Outcomes
Measurement in the Human Services. Washington, D.C.: National Association
of Social Workers Press.
Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services is scheduled for publication
in the second quarter of 1997 by NASW Press. The book includes original
chapters as well as papers prepared for the Center's 1995 Outcomes Measurement
in the Human Services Symposium (see proposed Table of Contents, below).
It is edited by Edward J. Mullen, CUSSW Willma and Albert Musher Professor
and Center Director and Jennifer L. Magnabosco. Following is an excerpt
from the draft Foreword.
Excerpts from the draft Foreword
... the present volume constitutes an especially timely and welcome
addition to the literature of social work and the helping professions.
The symposium that generated it represents the first large scale effort
by social work to bring together a critical mass of scholars, educators
and practitioners to address the all-important topic of outcomes measurement.
The volume does not represent an insular effort which draws solely upon
social workers. Rather, the conference participants and the contributors
to this volume are experts from a wide array of helping professions who
worked together for two days in a spirit of intensive and collegial intellectual
exchange. Hence, this book is not merely a multidisciplinary product; it
is truly interdisciplinary. The contents of this volume reflect vividly
the interrelated concerns of researchers, educators and practitioners.
Alan B. Siskind, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Jewish Board of
Family & Children's Services
Ronald A. Feldman, Ph.D., Dean Columbia University School of Social
Work
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
Ronald A. Feldman
Alan B. Siskind
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
Edward J. Mullen
Jennifer L. Magnabosco
PART I: OVERARCHING ISSUES AND METHODS
Chapter 1: Outcomes Measurement and Social Services - Public-Private
Sector Perspectives
Harry P. Hatry
Chapter 2: Program Outcomes: Conceptual and Measurement Issues
Peter H. Rossi
Chapter 3: Outcomes Measurement: The State of the Science
Brenda M. Booth
G. Richard Smith
Chapter 4: Measuring Health Care Outcomes from the Patient's Point
of View
John E. Ware, Jr.
Chapter 5: Assessment Tools as Outcome Measures in Social Work
Walter W. Hudson
Chapter 6: Developing Clinical Outcomes Systems: Conceptual and
Practical
Issues
William H. Berman
Stephen W. Hurt
PART II: OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT IN MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Chapter 7: System Changes and Accountability for Behavioral Health
Care Services: Lessons from the Private and Public Sectors
David L. Shern
Tom Trabin
Chapter 8: Federal and State Legislative and Program Directions for
Managed Care
Ronald W. Manderscheid
Marilyn J. Henderson
Chapter 9: Assessing Effectiveness of Mental Health Care in Routine
Clinical Practice: Critical Components, Administration, and Application
of Outcomes Modules
G. Richard Smith, Jr.
Kathryn M. Rost
Ellen P. Fischer
M. Audrey Burnam
Barbara J. Burns
Chapter 10: The Use of Rapid Assessment Instruments as Outcomes
Measures
Kevin Corcoran
Chapter 11: Comments and Questions for Outcomes Measurement in Mental
Health and Social Work
Paula S. Nurius
Betsy S. Vourlekis
Chapter 12: Outcome Measurement Systems in Mental Health - A Program
Perspective
Steven p. Segal
Chapter 13: Outcomes Measurement and the Mental Health Consumer
Advocacy
Movement
Mona Wasow
PART III: OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT IN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
Chapter 14: Results-Based Accountability for Child and Family
Services
Heather B. Weiss
Chapter 15: Methodological Considerations in Outcomes Measurement in
Family and Child Welfare
Fred H. Wulczyn
Chapter 16: Outcomes Measurement for Family and Children's Services:
Incremental Steps on Multiple Levels
Jacquelyn McCroskey
Chapter 17: Outcomes in the Context of Empirical Practice
Rami Benbenishty
PART IV: OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT IN HEALTH
Chapter 18: The Development of Health Related Quality of Life Measures
at Rand
Ian D. Coulter
Chapter 19: Outcomes Measurement for Social Work Research and Practice
in Health Care
Barbara Berkman
Chapter 20: Using Available Information in Practice-Based Outcomes
Research - A Case Study of Psycho-Social Risk Factors and Liver Transplant
Outcomes
Irwin Epstein
Felice Zilberfein
Stephen L. Snyder
Chapter 21: Prospective Psychosocial Interventions - A Merger of
Clinical
and Research Techniques
James Zabora
Chapter 22: Continuous Quality Improvement and Health Care Outcomes
Measurement: Implications for Social Work Services
Margaret Dimond
Penny Goldberg Roca
Chapter 23: Hospital Discharge Planning - A Comparative Analysis of
Two Social Work Models Serving AIDS Patients
Marianne C. Fahs
Kathleen Wade
Chapter 24: A Veterans Administration Community-Focused Residential
Care Program - Objectives and Outcomes
David Gitelson
Arthur Russo
Lisa Caraisco
Chapter 25: An Application of the Use of Outcome Measures With
Multiply-Diagnosed,
Low Income, Ethnically Diverse Clients
Marjorie H. Royle
Rosemary T. Moynihan
Chapter 26: Outcomes of Social Support for Women Survivors of Breast
Cancer
Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin
PART V: CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS
Chapter 27: Comments on Outcomes Measurement in Mental and Behavioral
Health
Robert Abramovitz
Andre Ivanoff
Rami Mosseri
Anne O'Sullivan
Chapter 28: Comments on Outcomes Measurement in Child and Family
Services
Brenda McGowan
Steve Cohen
Chapter 29: Comments on Outcomes Measurement in Health
Rita Black
Grace Christ
Chapter 30: A Concluding Comment
Edward J. Mullen
Jennifer L. Magnabosco
INDEX
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