Evaluation and Action in the Social Environment
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Evaluation and Action in the Social Environment

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Evaluation and Action in the Social Environment

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Evaluation and Action in the Social Environment
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  7. PREFACE
  8. Chapter 1. The Action Research Paradigm
  9. Chapter 2. Intervention and Evaluation in Family Settings
  10. Chapter 3. Community Groups: An Empirical Taxonomy for Evaluation and Intervention
  11. Chapter 4. Network Analysis and the Logic of Social Support
  12. Chapter 5. Action Research in the Built Environment
  13. Chapter 6. Conducting Behavioral Evaluations in Residential Facilities for Retarded Persons: From Analysis to Action
  14. Chapter 7. Human Service Programs as Work Organizations: Using Organizational Design to Improve Staff Motivation and Effectiveness
  15. Chapter 8. The Hospital Environment: Understanding and Modifying Its Impact on the Patient
  16. Chapter 9. An Integrated Network of Preventively Oriented School-Based Mental Health Approaches
  17. Chapter 10. The Role of Research in Changing the Legal System
  18. SUBJECT INDEX