Measuring Treatment Progress  by Patricia L. Owen (Hazelden, 2003) Purchase Now! Summary: The demand on service providers to give outcome information has grown rapidly: licensing bodies, donors, referring organizations, prospective patients and their families, board members, administrators and clinicians all want to know if the program is working. This book is intended to equip practitioners of treatment/recovery programs to design a naturalistic outcome study to generate specific answers to questions of efficacy. It shows how to conduct a real-world study on a treatment program using current participants as the study sample without having to control for every variable. The book includes chapters on: - Initial planning (deciding what to measure)
- Selecting an information-gathering method
- Choosing or designing research tools (questionnaires, etc.)
- Analyzing the data
- Presenting the information (writing the report, generating graphs)
- Studying outcomes in special populations or treatment settings (correctional institutions, employee assistance programs, women and adolescents)
- An overview on landmark studies
- An exploration of new directions in the field of outcome evaluation
Why does FASTEN recommend this resource? The Hazelden Foundation is a pioneer in the development in chemical dependency treatment programs. Additionally, the author is the director of the Butler Center for Research at the Hazelden Foundation and specializes in adult clinical psychology and health administration. Measuring Treatment Progress provides an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide for treatment providers interested in designing and conducting outcome studies for their programs. |
