SPRING 1997
About This Issue
This issue of Practice & Research presents the Center's Outcomes
Measurement in the Human Services Symposium. This symposium brought
together many of the nation's leading experts in outcomes measurement to
examine the current status and future directions for outcomes measurement
in the human services. A book based on the symposium papers and deliberations
will be published by the National Association of Social Workers in June
1997. Also included in this issue of Practice & Research are
articles describing current research conducted by Center affiliates. These
articles provide useful summaries of the Center's research programs.
This and all former issues of Practice & Research are now available
in electronic format on the Center’s Internet World Wide Web site. The
electronic edition available at the Web site is an expanded version of
Practice & Research with extensive links permitting easy cross-referencing
and rapid access to relevant related information. The electronic version
of the Winter 1997 issue includes extensive information about the symposium
including paper abstracts, biographical sketches, a list of invitees, pictures
of attendees, and the program. In the electronic format readers are free
to browse topics of interest, download articles for future reference, and
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