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, Fifth Edition, presents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation.   Specifically written for students and practitioners in all the human services, including social work, psychology, counseling, nursing and psychiatry.  Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts for bringing clarity to evaluation procedures, Evaluating Practice comes with a free CD-ROM featuring numerous programs,  including the innovative SINGWIN program for analyzing data (created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Yeshiva University), and the CASS and CAAP programs (created by Walter Hudson) for managing cases and scoring scales.

The improved and expanded CD-ROM contains an “Intervention Plan” form that can be used to develop a comprehensive intervention and evaluation plan of action that parallels chapters in the text.    The CD-ROM also contains a new “running case” that can be used interactively to try out concepts and procedures from the text.  Significant updates to SINGWIN (on CD-Rom), including the incorporation of new statistical procedures designed for ease of application.  And the prologue offers an extensive case illustrating the integration of practice, ethics, and evaluation for students, making the text even more appealing to practitioners.  

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 design data.

Text Website: http://www.ablongman.com/bloom
This website offers a variety of resources for students and instructors, including web links, technical assistance for the SINGWIN software package, sample syllabi, and lecture presentations.

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