Evaluating Treatment Environments

Evaluating Treatment Environments
Author: Rudolf H. Moos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2018-01-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351291785

Evaluating Treatment Environments describes how to assess the quality of psychiatric and substance abuse programs and how to use that information to monitor and improve these programs. Its aim is to identify environments that promote opportunities for personal growth, simultaneously enhancing both physical and psychological well-being. Although treatment programs are diverse, Moos asserts that a common conceptual framework can be used to evaluate them, and more emphasis should be placed on the process of matching personal and program factors and on the connections between such matches and patients' outcomes. The book is divided into three main parts. Part I focuses on hospital programs, using a sample of 160 programs throughout the United States. Part II evaluates community programs. Moos describes how to monitor and improve these programs, and assesses program implementation. Part III considers treatment environments, examining factors that shape the treatment environment, patients' satisfaction with and participation in program activities, patients' adaptation and community living skills, and patient-program congruence and the influence of treatment environments on patients with different levels of impairment. It also highlights the importance of the health care workplace and its impact on staff and the treatment environment. Treatment programs vary substantially in their policies and services, especially in what they expect of clients, rules about clients' daily life choices, and to what extent clients must be governed by the program, and whether or not the programs provide health and treatment services. Comparison studies are becoming more important as clients move more quickly from acute in-patient to community residential care. Moos stresses the need to pay special attention to how programs and services affect clients when conducting evaluations. Evaluating Treatment Environments will be a necessary addition to the libraries of mental health service professionals, as well as sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

Evaluating Treatment Environments

Evaluating Treatment Environments
Author: Rudolf H. Moos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138509849

Evaluating Treatment Environments describes how to assess the quality of psychiatric and substance abuse programs and how to use that information to monitor and improve these programs. Its aim is to identify environments that promote opportunities for personal growth, simultaneously enhancing both physical and psychological well-being. Although treatment programs are diverse, Moos asserts that a common conceptual framework can be used to evaluate them, and more emphasis should be placed on the process of matching personal and program factors and on the connections between such matches and patients' outcomes. The book is divided into three main parts. Part I focuses on hospital programs, using a sample of 160 programs throughout the United States. Part II evaluates community programs. Moos describes how to monitor and improve these programs, and assesses program implementation. Part III considers treatment environments, examining factors that shape the treatment environment, patients' satisfaction with and participation in program activities, patients' adaptation and community living skills, and patient-program congruence and the influence of treatment environments on patients with different levels of impairment. It also highlights the importance of the health care workplace and its impact on staff and the treatment environment. Treatment programs vary substantially in their policies and services, especially in what they expect of clients, rules about clients' daily life choices, and to what extent clients must be governed by the program, and whether or not the programs provide health and treatment services. Comparison studies are becoming more important as clients move more quickly from acute in-patient to community residential care. Moos stresses the need to pay special attention to how programs and services affect clients when conducting evaluations. Evaluating Treatment Environments will be a necessary addition to the libraries of mental health service professionals, as well as sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

Evaluating Treatment Environments

Evaluating Treatment Environments
Author: Rudolf H. Moos
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781412823036

This book presents the social ecological approach to the comparison and evaluation of treatment environments. Social ecology is concerned with the environment and how people adapt to it. The field deals with both the physical and the social environment. It combines basic research approaches with a dedication to resolving common human problems. The procedures developed in this classic volume have been used to monitor and improve treatment programs, to assess the adequacy of program implementation, and to understand the determinants and outcomes of specific aspects of treatment environments.

Evaluation and Action in the Social Environment

Evaluation and Action in the Social Environment
Author: Richard H. Price
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-05-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1483219437

Evaluation and Action in the Social Environment provides a description of a framework for doing evaluation and action research in social settings. This book presents the strategies for analysis and intervention in community, health, and human service settings. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the impact of social settings on individual behavior. This text then examines the family, community groups, and personal social networks. Other chapters consider the assessment and change in behavioral and physical environments. This book discusses as well the family as an interpersonal system, with emphasis on interactive sequences to show how symptomatic behavior has its own logic in the family context. The final chapter deals with larger and more complex settings and contexts, including schools, medical hospitals, and settings in the legal system. This book is a valuable resource for sociologists, anthropologists, social scientists, clinical therapists, program evaluators, and social policymakers.

River Basin Environment: Evaluation, Management and Conservation

River Basin Environment: Evaluation, Management and Conservation
Author: Fusheng Li
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2022-08-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811940703

This book provides updated and comprehensive information on the evaluation of the river basin environment, along with its management and conservation. The chapters collected the latest cutting-edge research achievements in vegetation function evaluation, remote sensing monitoring and analysis, water quality evaluation and control, water and wastewater treatment, soil remediation, forest resource management, microbial disease diagnosis and more, the key components that link directly with the safety, security and sustainability of river basin environment. This book emphasizes the important aspects for better and more effective evaluation, management and conservation of the river basin environment, the foundation for its sustainable utilization and development, the foundation for achieving water and food security, and the United Nations’ SDGs for No Poverty (1), Zero Hunger (2) and Clean Water and Sanitation (6), as well as Affordable and Clean Energy (7), Sustainable Cities and Communities (11), Climate Action (13), Life below Water (14) and Life on Land (15). This book will benefit the research community and environmental education. It will prove useful to students, water and forest resource managers, hydrologists and all those engaged or interested in any aspect of evaluation, management, and conservation of the river basin environment. The book also has the potential to inform multi-regional and sectoral policies in all regions of the world and contribute to sustainable development solutions through better management of water, soil, and vegetation resources.

Financial Evaluation of Environmental Investments

Financial Evaluation of Environmental Investments
Author: Tuula Moilanen
Publisher: IChemE
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1996
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780852953655

Traditional ways of analyzing investments, like net present value or payback calculations, do not deal adequately with environmental issues. Future liabilities and the long time-scale over which a product or process has an impact on the environment are not generally included, and risk is not incorporated properly. This text takes a holistic view of decision-making. The authors advance a methodology which puts the expected monetary values of different investment and risk scenarios into a mathematical model. Features of the model are a wider set of cost-benefits, a disciplined approach to risk and uncertainty, a consideration of the environmental aspects of every facet of an investment, quantification of less tangible things like corporate image and future liabilities, and a strict treatment of items like pollution monitoring that have been passed off as overheads. Case studies and examples of analysis to help you put it all into practice are included.