Assessing Outcomes in Child and Family ServicesMODERN APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
An Aldine de Gruyter Series of Texts and Monographs
SERIES EDITOR
James K. Whittaker, University of Washington
Paul Adams and Kristine E. Nelson (eds.), Reinventing Human Services: Community- and Family-Centered Practice
Ralph E. Anderson and Irl Carter, with Gary Lowe, Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Social Systems Approach (Fifth Edition)
Richard P. Barth, Mark Courtney, Jill Duerr Berrick, and Vicky Albert, From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements
Gale Burford and Joe Hudson, Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-Centered Child and Family Practice
Robert J. Chaskin, Prudence Brown, Sudhir Venkatesh, and Avis Vidal, Building Community Capacity
Dana Christensen, Jeffrey Todahl, and William C. Barrett, Solution-Based Casework: An Introduction to Clinical and Case Management Skills in Casework Practice
Marie Connolly with Margaret McKenzie, Effective Participatory Practice: Family Group Conferencing in Child Protection
Mark W Fraser, Peter J. Pecora, and David A. Haapala, Families in Crisis: The Impact of Intensive Family Preservation Services
James Garbarino, Children and Families in the Social Environment (Second Edition)
Roberta R. Greene, Human Behavior Theory: A Diversity Framework
Roberta R. Greene, Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice (Second Edition)
Roberta R. Greene, Social Work with the Aged and Their Families (Second Edition)
Andr Ivanoff, Betty J. Blythe, and Tony Tripodi, Involuntary Clients in Social Work Practice: A Research-Based Approach
Susan P Kemp, James K. Whittaker, and Elizabeth M. Tracy, Person-Environment Practice: The Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping
Gary R. Lowe and P. Nelson Reid, The Professionalization of Poverty: Social Work and the Poor in the Twentieth Century
Anthony N. Maluccio, Cinzia Canali, and Tiziano Vecchiato (eds.), Assessing Outcomes in Child and Family Services: Comparative Design and Policy Issues
Robert M. Moroney and Judy Krysik, Social Policy and Social Work: Critical Essays on the Welfare State (Second Edition)
Peter J. Pecora, Mark W Fraser, Kristine Nelson, Jacqueline McCroskey, and William Meezan, Evaluating Family-Based Services
Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Anthony N. Maluccio and Richard P. Barth, with Robert D. Plotnick, The Child Welfare Challenge: Policy, Practice, and Research (Second Edition)
John R. Schuerman, Tina L. Rzepnicki, and Julia H. Littell, Putting Families First: An Experience in Family Preservation
Madeleine R. Stoner, The Civil Rights of Homeless People: Law, Social Policy, and Social Work Practice
Tiziano Vecchiato, Anthony N. Maluccio, and Cinzia Canali (eds.), Evaluation in Child and Family Services: Comparative Client and Program Perspectives
Albert E. Trieschman, James K. Whittaker, and Larry K. Brendtro, The Other 23 Hours: Child-Care Work with Emotionally Disturbed Children in a Therapeutic Milieu
Harry H. Vorrath and Larry K. Brendtro, Positive Peer Culture (Second Edition)
Betsy S. Vourlekis and Roberta R. Greene (eds.), Social Work Case Management
James K. Whittaker and Associates, Reaching High-Risk Families: Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services
First published 2002 by Transaction Publishers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Assessing outcomes in child and family services : comparative design and policy issues / edited by Anthony N. Maluccio, Cinzia Canali, and Tiziano Vecchiato.
p. cm. (Modem applications of social work)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0202-307042 (alk. paper) ISBN 0202-307050 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Child welfareEvaluationCongresses. 2. Family servicesEvaluationCongresses. 3. Evaluation research (Social action programs)Congresses. I. Maluccio, Anthony N. IL Canali, Cinzia, III. Vecchiato, Tiziano. IV Series.
HV707 .A87 2002
362.7dc21
2002002703
ISBN 13: 9780-20230705-3 (pbk)
Frank Ainsworth, Edith Cowan University, School of International, Cultural and Community Studies, Joondalup Campus, Perth (Western Australia)
Marianne Berry, Office of Child Welfare Research and Development, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Cinzia Canali, Fondazione Emanuela Zancan, Padua (Italy)
Scottye J. Cash, School of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Robert J. Chaskin, The Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Inger Davis,