Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome Measures in Health and Human Services / Edition 1

by Albert R. Roberts, Kenneth R. Yeager

Overview

The Evidence-Based Practice Manual was developed as an all-inclusive and comprehensive practical desktop resource. It includes 104 original chapters, each specially written by the most prominent and experienced medical, public health, psychology, social work, criminal justice, and public policy practitioners, researchers, and professors in the United States and Canada. This book is specifically designed with practitioners in mind, providing at-a-glance overviews and direct application chapters. This is the only interdisciplinary volume available for locating and applying evidence-based assessment measures, treatment plans, and interventions. Particular attention has been given to providing practice guidelines and exemplars of evidence-based practice and practice-based research.

The Evidence-Based Practice Manual emphasizes and summarizes key elements, issues, concepts, and how-to approaches in the development and application of evidence-based practice. Discussions include program evaluation, quality and operational improvement strategies, research grant applications, validating measurement tools, and utilizing statistical procedures. Concise summaries of the substantive evidence gained from methodologically rigorous quantitative and qualitative research provide make this is an accessible resource for a broad range of practitioners facing the mandate of evidence-based practice in the health and human services.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195165005
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/15/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1080
Product dimensions:	10.32(w) x 7.28(h) x 2.15(d)

About the Author

Rutgers University

The Ohio State University Medical Center

Table of Contents

Section I: Overview and Critical Issues1 Designing, Searching for, Finding, and Implementing Practice-Based Research and Evidence-Based Studies, Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D. and Kenneth Yeager, Ph.D.2 Implementing Best Practice and Expert Consensus Procedures, Vikki L. Vandiver D.P.H. and Kevin Corcoran Ph.D. J.D.3 Overview of Evidence Based Practices, Richard N. Rosenthal M.D.4. Informing Health Choices: Reflections on Knowledge Integration Strategies for Electronic Health Records, Robert Hayward M.D., M.P.H., FRCPC5. Toward Common Performance Indicators and Measures for Accountability in Behavioral Health, Gregory Teague, Ph.D., Tom Trabin, and Charles Ray6 An Overview of Focus Group Interviewing, Mary Anne Casey, Ph.D. and Richard Krueger, Ph.D.7 Mental Illness, Substance Dependence and Suicidality: Secondary Data Analysis, Kenneth Yeager, Ph.D. and Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D.8 Making Participant Observation Research Matter: A Typology Based on 12,000 Felons, Fredric G. Reamer Ph.D.9 Computer Technology and Social Work, Carrie Petrucci Ph.D., Stuart Kirk Ph.D., and William Reid, D.S.W.10 Problem Formulation, Conceptualization, and Theory Development, Harris Chaiklin Ph.D.11 Statistics for Human Service Workers, Gunner Almgren, Ph.D.Section II: Research Ethics and Step-by-Step Research Grant Guidelines12 Methodological, Practical and Ethical Challenges to Inner-City Health Research, Stephen W. Hwang M.D., M.P.H., Rochelle E. Martin, M.Sc., and Ahmed M. Bayoumi, M.D., M.S.13 Qualitative Research Ethics: Thriving within Tensions, Beverley J. Antle, Ph.D., Cheryl Regehr, Ph.D., and F. Mishna, Ph.D.14 The Fine Art of Grantsmanship, David Streiner, Ph.D.15 Applying for Research Grants: Step-by-Step Guidelines, Carol T. Mowbray, Ph.D.16 Setting the Stage for Accountability and Program Evaluation in Community-Based Grant-making, Cindy A. Crusto, Ph.D. and Abraham Wandersman, Ph.D.17 Conducting Cost-Benefit Analysis in Human Service Settings, Michael J. Camasso Ph.D., Carol Harvey Ph.D. and Radha Jagannathan Ph.D.Section III: Evidence-Based Practice: Diagnosis, Interventions, and Outcome Research18 Concise Standards for Developing Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines, Aaron Rosen, Ph.D., and Enola K. Proctor, Ph.D.19 Healthcare Evidence Based Practice: A Product of Political and Cultural Times, Sophia F. Dziegielewski, Ph.D. and Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D.20 Facilitating Practitioner Use of Evidence-Based Practice, Edward J. Mullen, D.S.W.21 Implementation of Practice Guidelines and Evidence-Based Treatment: A Survey of Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Social Workers, Edward J. Mullen, D.S.W. and William Bacon, Ph.D.22 Measuring Skills and Reasoning Scientifically and Critically About Practice, Len Gibbs Ph.D. and Eileen Gambrill Ph.D.23 Task Centered Practice: An Exemplar of Evidence-Based Practice, William Reid, D.S.W. and Anne E. Fortune, Ph.D.24 Treatment Evidence in a Non-Experimenting Practice Environment: Some Recommendations for Increasing Supply and Demand, Michael J. Camasso, Ph.D.25 Evidence-Based Practice and Manualized Treatment with Children, Craig Winston LeCroy Ph.D. and Scott Okamoto Ph.D.26 Evidence-Based Treatment for Traumatized and Abused Children, Carlton Munson Ph.D.27 Treating Juvenile Delinquents with Conduct Disorder, ADHD, and Oppositional Defiance Disorder, David W. Springer, Ph.D.28 Evidence-Based Treatments for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Deciding What Treatment Method Works for Whom?, Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Ph.D. and Stephanie A. Schwartz, Ph.D.29 The Implications of Controlled Outcome Studies on Planned Short-Term Psychotherapy with Depressive Disorders, Bernard Bloom, Ph.D., Kenneth Yeager, Ph.D. and Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D.30 Evidence Based Practice with Anxiety Disorders: Guidelines Based on 59 Outcome Studies, Bernard Bloom Ph.D., Kenneth Yeager, Ph.D. and Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D.31 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Persons with PTSD: An Evidence Based Approach, M. Elizabeth Vonk, Ph.D. and Patrick Bordnick, Ph.D., M.P.H.32 Evidence-Based Life Skills Interventions for Pregnant Adolescents in School Settings, Mary Beth Harris, Ph.D. and Cynthia Franklin, Ph.D.33 Evidence-Based Practice with EMDR, Karen Knox, Ph.D.34 Dysthymic Disorder and the College Student: Evidence-Based Mental Health Approach, Joseph Walsh Ph.D. and Jacqueline Corcoran Ph.D.35 Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) Clinics, Mark Willenbring, M.D. and Hildi Hagedorn Ph.D.36 Evidence Based Couples Therapy with Depressed Clients, Jacqueline Cocoran Ph.D.Section IV: Epidemiological and Public Health Research37 Epidemiology Basics and Foundation Skills, David Streiner, Ph.D.38. Application of Remote Sensing for Disease Surveillance in Urban and Suburban Areas, Annelise Tran, Jacques Gardon, Laurent Polidori39. Establishing Collaborations that Engender Trust in the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, James C. Thomas, MPH, PhD, Eugenia Eng, MPH, DrPH, Sara Ackerman, MPH, Jo Anne Earp, ScD, Hattie Ellis, MEd, and Colleen Carpenter, MA, MPH40. Prevalence of Smoking and Cessation Among Northern Plains Indians, Gred Holzman and Todd Harwell41. Using Evaluation Data as the Basis for a Local Ordinance to Control Alcohol and Tobacco Billboards in Chicago, Diana P. Hackbarth, RN, PhD, FAAN42 Use of Random Digit Dialing to Recruit Representative Population Samples: Epidemiological Case Control Studies, Lynda S.Voigt Ph.D.Section V: Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement43 Measuring and Evaluating Effectiveness of Services for Families and Children, Charles L. Usher Ph.D.44 Risk Adjusted Mental Health Outcomes, Michael S. Hendryx Ph.D.45 Validity and Reliability in Family Assessment, Cynthia Franklin Ph.D., Patricia A. Cody, M.S.W., and Catheleen Jordan, Ph.D.46 Statistical Methods for Estimates of Inter-rater Reliability, Charles Auerbach, Ph.D., Heidi Heft LaPorte, D.S.W., Richard K. Caputo, Ph.D.47 Elements of Consumer Based Outcome Measurement, Carol Snively Ph.D.48 Using Computer Technology in the Measurement and Prevention of College Drinking, Heather Parris, M.S.S.W. and John S. Wodarski, Ph.D.Section VI: Assessment Tools and Measures49 Locating Measurement Tools and Instruments for Individuals and Couples, Kevin Corcoran Ph.D.50 Overview of Health Scales and Measures, David Streiner, Ph.D.51 Clinician and Patient Satisfaction with Computer-Assisted Diagnostic Assessment in Community Outpatient Clinics, Edward J. Mullen, D.S.W., Christopher Lucas, M.D., Prudence Fisher, Ph.D., and William Bacon, Ph.D.52 Psychosocial Measures for Asian Pacific Americans, Marianne R. Yoshioka, Ph.D. and Tazuko Shibusawa, Ph.D.53 Crisis Assessment Measures and Tools, Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D.54 Outcome Measurement Scale with Families of the Seriously Mentally Ill, Phyllis Solomon Ph.D. and Jeffrey Drane Ph.D.55 Constructing and Validating Assessment tools for School Based Practitioners: The Elementary School Successful Profile, Natasha Bowen, Ph.D. Gary Bowen Ph.D. and Michael Wooley Ph.D.56 PTSD and Trauma Assessment Scales, Patrick Bordnick, Ph.D., M.P.H., Betsy Vonk, Ph.D. and Ken Graap, M.Ed.57 Diagnosis and Assessment of Comorbid Oppositional Defiance Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Gary Mitchell, M.S.W. and Dawn Koontz, Ph.D.58 Assessment Measures for Sexual Predators: Step-by-Step Guidelines, Graham Glancy, M.D. and Cheryl Regehr, Ph.D.59 "Optimal Practice" Clinical Neuropsychology: A Cautionary Tale and Revisionist Proto-Model, Nathaniel J. Pallone, Ph.D. and James J. Hennessy, Ph.D.60 Development of the Fatherhood Scale, Gary Dick Ph.D.61 Constructing and Validating a Specific Multi-item Assessment or Evaluation Tool, Anna C. Faul Ph.D. and Michiel A. van Zyl Ph.D.Section VII: Program Evaluation Strategies62 Empowerment Evaluation, David Fetterman, Ph.D. and Mimi Eiler, Ph.D.63 The 7 Secrets of a Successful Veteran Evaluator, C. Aaron McNeece, Ph.D.64 Integrating Program Evaluation and Organization Development, Charles McClintock Ph.D.65 Process Vs. Outcome Evaluation, Michael J. Smith, D.S.W.66 Data Quality for International Service Evaluation, Natalia Pane Ph.D.67 The Data Whisperer: Strategies for Motivating Raw Data Providers, Natalia Pane Ph.D.68 Needs Assessment: A Step-by-Step Approach, Douglas Leigh Ph.D.69 Budgeting and Fiscal Management in Program Evaluations, Leon Ginsburg, Ph.D.70 Constructing and Using Logic Models in Program Evaluation, Thomas Chapel Ph.D.71 Program Evaluation: This is Rocket Science, Kenneth R. Yeager Ph.D.72 The Evaluation of Training for Leaders of Foster and Adoptive Parent Support Groups, Elizabeth King Keenan, Ph.D.73 Documenting Change in Addiction Treatment Systems: A Model for Evaluation and Examples of Its Use, Dianna L. Newman, Ph.D., Jennifer A. Smith, Ph.D., Margaret M. Geehan, Ph.D. Gail Viamonte, Ed.D.74 Innovative Approaches to Risk Assessment within Alcohol Prevention Programming, Lori Holleran, Ph.D.Section VIII: Practice-Based Qualitative Research Exemplars75 Qualitative Evaluation Application of Reflective Practice in Direct Care Settings, Ian Shaw Ph.D.76 Qualitative Research with Battered Women: A Continuum Based on 501 Cases, Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D.77 Using Qualitative Research to Enhance Practice: The Example of Breast Cancer in African American Women, Julianne S. Oktay, Ph.D., and Eunice Y. Park, M.S.W.78 Qualitative Research: Cancer Prevention in Older Women, Donna Hurdle Ph.D.79 How Family Members of the Mentally Ill View Mental Health Professionals: A Focused Ethnography, Eric D. Johnson, Ph.D.80 Death on a Daily Basis: Integrating Research and Practice in Support Groups for ICU Nurses in Southern Brazil, William Gomes, Ph.D., Ciommara R. S. Beninca, Ph.D., and Sherri McCarthy, Ph.D.81 Family Status and Soup Kitchen Use: Some Policy Considerations Based on Qualitative Research Findings, Harris Chaiklin, Ph.D. and Marc Lipton, Ph.D.Section IX: Practice Based Quantitative Research Exemplars82 A Cognitive Behavioral Approach to Suicide Risk Reduction in Crisis Intervention, Marjorie Wehshar Ph.D.83 Effects of Restorative Justice on Fear of Revictimization: A Meta-Analysis Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models, Mona M. Williams-Hayes, Ph.D. and William R. Nugent, Ph.D.84 Factors Associated with Crime on the Casino Floor: Implications of Secondary Data Analysis, Gerald LaSalle, M.A.85 Homicides in Older Women in New York City: A Profile Based on Secondary Data Analysis, Patricia Brownell, Ph.D. and Jacquelin Berman, Ph.D.86 Effective Outcomes Management at Deveraux, Howard A. Savin Ph.D.87 Developing Treatment Programs for Drug Courts and Evaluating Effectiveness, Sherri McCarthy, Ph.D. and Thomas Franklin Waters, Ph.D.88 Application of Logic Models in Rural Program Development, Paul Longo Ph.D.89 Amplifying Performance Measurement Literacy: Reflections from the Appalachian Partnership for Welfare Reform, Paul Longo, Ph.D.90 HIV Prevention: Evidenced Based Practice with Infrastructure Support, Sarah J. Lewis, Ph.D. and Ellen Goldstein, M.A.91 Community Reintegration Pre-Release Research Exemplar: Applying Theory to Practice-Based Research, Harris Chaiklin, Ph.D.92 Principles, Practices and Findings of the St. Louis Conundrum: A Large-Scale Field Experiment with Anti-Social Children, Ronald A. Feldman, Ph.D.93 Measuring Police and Citizen Perceptions of Police Power in Newark, New Jersey, Gina Pisano Robertiello, Ph.D.94 The Role of Families in Buffering Stress in Persons with Mental Illness: A Correlational Study, Eric D. Johnson, Ph.D.95 Cognitive Rehabilitation and Neuronal Plasticity: Research on the Effectiveness of Quantitative EEG Biofeedback, Kirtley Thornton, Ph.D.Section X: Establishing, Monitoring and Maintaining Quality and Operational Improvement96 Framework for Institutionalizing Quality Assurance, Diana R. Silimperi M.D.97. Application of Quality Management Methods for Preventing an Adverse Event: The Case of Falls in Hospitals, Catherine Genier-Sennelier, MD, PhD and Etienne Minvielle, MD, PhD98 Establishment and Utilization of Balanced Scorecards, Kenneth R. Yeager Ph.D.99 Strengthening Practice Through Results Management, Dennis K. Orthner Ph.D. and Gary Bowen Ph.D.100. Measuring Clients Perception as Outcome Measurement, Celine Mercier, Michael Landry, Marc Corbere, and Michael Perreault101 Social Work Role in Disease Management, Nancy Claiborne Ph.D. and Henry Bandenburgh Ph.D.102 Establishing Benchmark Programs within Addictions Treatment, Ronald Hunsicker, Ph.D.103 Establishment of Quality Programming, Helen Hartnett Ph.D. and Stephen Kapp Ph.D.Section XI: Epilogue104 The Clinical Utility of Mental Health Research: Bridging the Present to the Future, Peter E. Nathan, Ph.D. and Jack M. Gorman. M.D.Appendices:Internet Resources on Research and Evaluation in Healthcare and Human Service SettingsGlossary

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Liliana E Pezzin, Ph.D., J.D.(Medical College of Wisconsin)
Description: This book is a collection of chapters addressing specific issues, concepts, and how-to approaches in the development and application of evidence-based practice. With 104 chapters and over 1,000 pages, the book addresses a variety of topics from developing practice guidelines to focus group interviewing and grant writing techniques.
Purpose: Designed to serve as a comprehensive practical desktop resource, this manual features concise, easy-to-read chapters intended to assist practitioners and administrators in identifying and applying consensus protocols and evidence-based practice and developing measurement and critical reasoning skills to implement and evaluate quality improvement initiatives within their practice environment.
Audience: Although the book is targeted at a wide range of practitioners, its content is most directly applicable to readers with a background or interest in criminal justice and social work research and practice. Important topics that might otherwise be expected from an all-inclusive book on outcome measures in health and human services receive relatively little attention. Notably absent from the book, for example, are any references to preference-based outcome measures, such as quality adjusted life years, which are the cornerstone of cost-effectiveness analyses.
Features: Each of the 10 main sections of the book relies on specific applied studies to convey information about the theoretical or methodological concept being discussed.
Assessment: The editors are to be commended for bringing together a large body of literature on measurement tools, program evaluation, and quality improvement strategies. Yet the uneven coverage of the various topics and the absence of a clear underlying theme tying together the individual chapters makes it difficult to place their contribution into context.

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"Professors Roberts and Yeager have produced probably the most comprehensive treatment of evidence-based practice. There is everything in here between two covers. The book traverses a vast expanse of territory with depth and clarity, all the way from treating the individual psychotherapy client to evaluating the outcomes of complex community programs. This manual can be the ultimate guide to information ranging from issues in public health to psychology to criminal justice. With the broad spectrum of topics and the in-depth view of the scope of the issues, readers would most likely find the answer regardless what question they may have." —Journal of the American Public Human Services Association

"This book is like a large, rare diamond. ....{it} will be used frequently and is destined to become a classic in the important years ahead." —Families in Society

"....the most comprehensive treatment of evidence-based practice. ....traverses a vast expanse of territory with depth and clarity...." —Journal of the American Public Human Services Association

"This Manual represents the most significant and timely step to establish a foundation for understanding and promoting the efficacy of evidence-based social work. Both social work educators and practitioners will find the studies ground-breaking and broadly representative of the field, research methodologies, and our attempts toward greater accountability in social work practice. This outstanding, encyclopedic, and valuable guidebook will greatly benefit experienced educators, practitioners, and researchers as well as graduate students. I give it my highest recommendation." Julia M. Watkins, Ph.D., Executive Director, Council on Social Work Education, Former Dean and Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Maine, at Orono

"The Evidence-Based Practice Manual effectively tackles the biggest questions in social work: Is there sufficient evidence on which to base social work practice decisions? Yes! Should social workers be ethically bound to provide best practices assessment and interventions? Yes! Can social work any longer afford to ignore the empirical evidence and practice outside of a best practices model? No! Finally, social work practitioners and educators have an outstanding and complete manual to assist in identifying and applying cutting-edge protocols and evidence-based practice."-Karen M. Sowers, Ph.D., Professor and Dean, The University of Tennessee College of Social Work

"Most people who work in the health and human services fields do so because they want to help others, to make a difference. This new, practical guide is a rich resource for what really does work—based on the best of evidence."—William L. Roper, M.D., M.P.H., Dean and Professor of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health and Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Congratulations to Roberts and Yeager on their magnificent new volume, the Evidence-based Practice Manual, a genuinely seminal contribution to interdisciplinary practice in health and human services. It is the best, most comprehensive, exceptionally well-written and up-to-date book on knowledge-building and evidence-based practice. Every clinician, researcher and administrator should have a copy on their desk!"—Bruce A. Thyer, Ph.D., LCSW, Dean, School of Social Work, Florida State University and Editor-in-Chief, Research on Social Work Practice journal

"The Evidence-Based Practice Manual tells you everything you need to know about evidence-based practice, but never thought you could find in one book. The list of contributors reads like a who's who of social service and public health researchers. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary book presents the latest state-of-the-art information about evidence-based practice."—Elaine P. Congress, DSW Professor and Associate Dean, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service

"This compendium reviews a comprehensive array of methods of searching for, planning and implementing, and using evidence-based studies and practice-based research. Its 104 excellent and original chapters cover a complete range of quantitative and qualitative research exemplars, assessment scales and instruments, evidence-based protocols, program evaluation methods, and quality assurance indicators and performance measures in public health and social work settings. All students, professors and practitioners in social work, public health and allied fields should keep this essential reference nearby on their desks as a valuable resource in helping them implement and advance evidence-based practice."—Allen Rubin, Ph.D., Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor in Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work

" 'All-inclusive' and 'comprehensive' are the most appropriate words to characterize this manual, prepared for those who are implementing or will implement evidence-based practice in their own fields of human services. From individual health intervention to societal policy making, from grant application to program evaluation, from measurement theories to intricacies of real-world intervention, from the 500-item glossary to the 120 Internet resources, I cannot find areas or topics that are important for those who care about evidence-based practice that are not covered in this authoritative desktop reference." —Toshi A. Furukawa, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan

"The Evidence-Based Practice Manual includes an extraordinary range of 104 original, informative and well-written chapters that should be required reading for every practitioner of health services research and quality improvement in health care, particularly those involved in mental health care delivery." —Gordon Guyatt, M.D., M.Sc. Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Internal Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and Chairman, A.M.A. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

"At a time when clinicians feel the increasing burdens of heavy caseloads, time constraints, and shrinking rewards for their clinical efforts, practitioners are now confronted with a new measure and challenge to their work-evidence based practice (EBP). The compendium of 104 scholarly and practical chapters in this manual provides clear and exceptionally useful guidelines on what EBP is why we need it and how it enhances our knowledge base for best exercising our roles as clinicians, researchers and educators."—Edward J. Khantzian, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., and Founding member, Department of Psychiatry, The Cambridge Hospital, Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass..

"This book can provide an important vehicle to consider the mental health and social work aspects of the care needed by our patients and clients to incorporate evidence-based practice, improve health, and reduce the burden of illness in society...an excellent resource for anyone, from student to seasoned professional, who needs to develop or refine his or her understanding to incorporate evidence and best practices into professional work."—Respiratory Care, Shelley C. Mishoe, Ph.D. RRT FAARC, School of Allied Health Sciences, Medical College of Georgia

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