A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Child Indicators

A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Child Indicators
Author: William O'Hare
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2022-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030902919

This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects. The book is based on the fundamental idea that better data leads to better decisions regarding programs for children. The number of people with experience and expertise in developing child indicator projects is limited in many countries. This initiative provides critical information on the topic in a cost-effective manner, and thereby fills an important niche regarding the use of child indicators. To the extent that it promotes more and better child indicator projects, the book leads to more attention for children and better decision-making regarding public support for children. It is also likely to increase the number of such projects that exist and to improve the quality of such projects. This easy-to-use and practical guide is for all professionals and organizations working with child indicators data.

Key Indicators of Child and Youth Well-Being

Key Indicators of Child and Youth Well-Being
Author: Brett V. Brown
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2007-08-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136677046

Indicators of child and youth well-being are indispensable tools for improving the lives of children. In this book, the nation‘s leading development researchers review the recent progress made in the measurement, collection, dissemination, and use of indicators of child and youth well-being. In addition, they identify opportunities for future

A Practitioner's Guide to Using Child Indicators

A Practitioner's Guide to Using Child Indicators
Author: William O'Hare
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2022-09-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9783030902933

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview Chapter 2: Theoretical frameworks on child well-being Chapter 3: Uses of Child Indicator Data Chapter 4: Organizing a Project: The Planning Process Chapter 5: Data Collection Chapter 6: Data analysis or tabulation Chapter 7: Producing a report Chapter 8: Dissemination Chapter 9: Evaluation/monitoring Chapter 10: Examples of child indicator projects

Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice

Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice
Author: Allen Rubin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1119858569

The latest edition of an essential text to help students and practitioners distinguish between research studies that should and should not influence practice decisions Now in its third edition, Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice delivers an essential and practical guide to integrating research appraisal into evidence-informed practice. The book walks you through the skills, knowledge, and strategies you can use to identify significant strengths and limitations in research. The ability to appraise the veracity and validity of research will improve your service provision and practice decisions. By teaching you to be a critical consumer of modern research, this book helps you avoid treatments based on fatally flawed research and methodologies. Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice, Third Edition offers: An extensive introduction to evidence-informed practice, including explorations of unethical research and discussions of social justice in the context of evidence-informed practice. Explanations of how to appraise studies on intervention efficacy, including the criteria for inferring effectiveness and critically examining experiments. Discussions of how to critically appraise studies for alternative evidence-informed practice questions, including nonexperimental quantitative studies and qualitative studies. A comprehensive and authoritative blueprint for critically assessing research studies, interventions, programs, policies, and assessment tools, Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice belongs in the bookshelves of students and practitioners of the social sciences.

Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice

Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice
Author: Allen Rubin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1118045106

Written by a top scholar in the field, Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice gives essential and practical guidance on how to integrate research appraisal into evidence-based practice endeavors to ensure the best client care. This reader-friendly book presents you with the knowledge you need about various research designs and methods so that when engaging in the evidence-based practice (EBP) process, you can determine which interventions, programs, policies, and assessment tools are supported by the best evidence.

The Practitioner's Guide to Working with Families

The Practitioner's Guide to Working with Families
Author: Margaret Bell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350318175

This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions. It brings together recent thinking on the historical and contemporary constructions of the family in such a way as to provide a helpful framework for practitioners working in a variety of settings in the field. It offers up-to-date information on political, legislative and theoretical frameworks, and it reviews and illustrates a wide range of approaches and practice skills for working with families with different problems in different contexts.

The Practitioner Guide to Skills Training for Struggling Kids

The Practitioner Guide to Skills Training for Struggling Kids
Author: Michael L. Bloomquist
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462507360

Addressing frequently encountered emotional, behavioral, and academic difficulties, this essential guide shows how to help parents implement proven skills-building strategies with their kids (ages 5-17). The author draws on over 25 years of research and clinical practice to provide a flexible program for individual families or parent groups. The focus is on teaching kids the skills they need to get their development back on track and teaching parents to cope with and manage challenging behavior. Featuring vignettes and troubleshooting tips, the Practitioner Guide is packed with ideas for engaging clients and tailoring the interventions. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, it contains more than 60 reproducible handouts and forms. The related book Skills Training for Struggling Kids, an invaluable client recommendation, guides parents to implement the strategies and includes all of the handouts and forms they need. Note: The original Skills Training for Children with Behavior Problems was designed for practitioners and parents to use together. It has now been split into two volumes that serve each audience better with tailored information, more detailed instructions, and resources.

The Oxford Handbook of Child Psychological Assessment

The Oxford Handbook of Child Psychological Assessment
Author: Donald H. Saklofske
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 885
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199796300

This handbook surveys clinical and educational considerations related to the foundations, models, special topics, and practice of psychological assessment.

Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of School Behavior

Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of School Behavior
Author: Mary Lou Kelley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0306472678

This book provides clinicians and researchers with reviews of a compendium of instruments used for assessing children's and adolescents' behavior, social, or attentional problems in the school setting. Although the primary focus is on the evaluation of problems manifested in the school setting, many instruments reviewed are multi-informant and are used to evaluate children across settings. All instruments reviewed have psychometric support. The contemporary assessment of children's behavior problems has moved away from exclusive reliance on rating scale interview methods to functional assessment of children in the classroom. As such, a chapter on functional assessment, which refers to identifying the function of the behavior with regard to reinforcement contingencies, is included in the book Also included is a chapter on curriculum based assessment methods for evaluating academic skill deficits relative to the child's curriculum. This chapter is included given the increased risk of academic weaknesses for children with behavior or attentional problems.

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Depression

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Depression
Author: Arthur M. Nezu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0306476290

This book is intended to guide clinicians and researchers in choosing practical tools relevant for clinical assessment, intervention, and/or research in this area. It contains over 90 reviews of measures of depression and depression-related constructs. It provides summary tables comparing and contrasting different instruments in terms of their time requirements, suitability, costs, administration, reliability, and validity, and sample copies of 25 instruments in the public domain.