Client-Centered Evaluation: New Models for Helping Professionals - Softcover

Bloom, Martin; Britner, Preston A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020583258X ISBN 13: 9780205832583

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

This highly accessible evaluation text encourages students to evaluate their practice from multiple points of view, without the use of statistics.

 

It encourages the client's active participation in evaluation by asking: "Are these the results you wanted in resolving your concern?" and builds on single-case design. 

 

About this title

About the Author

Martin Bloom has been developing ideas about, and methods for, single-system designs for many years.   He has a Ph.D. in social psychology (University of Michigan) and a Certificate in Social Study [social work] (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), and has taught in several schools of social work in the United States, and lectured abroad on evaluation and primary prevention in Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, and England.   He has retired recently, only to continue research and writing in evaluation and primary prevention, while also becoming an exhibiting artist.  He is married (for 52 years) and has two sons and three grandchildren.   Preston A. Britner is an Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, and he holds joint appointments in Educational Psychology and the Ph.D. program in Public Health. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Virginia.  Prof. Britner is Co-Chair of UConn’s Public Engagement Forum, which coordinates the University’s service, outreach, and engagement efforts.  He is a Teaching Fellow, the highest teaching distinction at UConn.  He is Editor Emeritus for The Journal of Primary Prevention and serves on a variety of editorial boards and university, state, and national boards and committees.  He has published in the areas of child-parent relationships, mentoring, child maltreatment prevention, and social policy affecting families.  Prof. Britner is currently serving on the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Children, Youth, and Families and is a Fellow of APA.  He is married (for fewer than 52 years) and has a daughter and two sons.

Review

Thank you,     "As a practitioner, educator and research/scholar, I found the book, Client-Centered Evaluation: New Models for Helping Professionals, to be a welcomed change to the conventional approach to practice evaluation.  In the new models presented by Bloom and Britner, the client is not a passive participant in the process and the researcher is instructed on how to engage the client in research design, knowledge-building, research design and evaluation. This book guides the learner through an eight-step process of single-system designs.The Client-Centered Evaluation: New Models for Helping Professionals is a necessary resource that will offer students an innovative alternative for engaging clients in "defining practice goals and objectives, helping to choose and devise measures, share ideas in the collection of data and its interpretation." Students will have access to a Web site with glossary terms and additional research and evaluation tools. This new approach is suitable across the learning continuum, from the novice student/beginner practitioner to the more advanced level consumer of knowledge. The book is an essential addition to undergraduate and graduate curricula that prepares helping professionals to evaluate practice and empower their clients."                  Dr. Karen Bullock,  North Carolina State University

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 020583258X
• ISBN 13: 9780205832583
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192