1. Evaluating Family-Based Services: Challenges and Tasks -- Evaluating Changes in Systems / Charles L. Usher -- 2. Designing Family-Based Service Program Evaluations -- 3. Sampling Children and Families -- 4. Assessing Services and Interventions -- 5. Assessing Family Functioning -- 6. Assessing Child Functioning -- 7. Assessing Parent Functioning and Social Support -- 8. Placement Prevention -- 9. Measuring Program Efficiency -- 10. Constructivist Research: A Qualitative Approach / Mary K. Rodwell -- 11. The Management and Impact of Family-Based Services Evaluations: Doing Research in the Real World -- A Sample Research Proposal -- 12. Analyzing Findings and Writing Reports -- 13. Social Policy and Evaluation: An Evolving Symbiosis / Charles Gershenson.
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