Title: Innovative approaches to mental health evaluation /
Authors: Stahler, Gerald.; Tash, William R.
Publisher: Academic Press,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Evaluation Studies as Topic; Mental health services Evaluation; Mental Health Services
Abstract: This book is a collection of papers that provides a broad range of ideas, methods, and techniques in program administration and evaluation in the field of mental health. The book is organized into 2 sections. Part I, consisting of 8 chapters, presents the necessary evaluation strategies and approaches that effectively address the important mental health issues for the 1980s such as prevention programs; the linking of health and mental health delivery systems; accountability in assuring quality of services; deinstitutionalizing the chronically mentally ill; and providing for greater local participation in mental health program management. Part II, surveys the promising evaluation methods, approaches, and relevant issues that are emerging in the new organizational and political environment of the mental health system.
Contents: The design and evaluation of future mental health systems / John C. Wolfe and Herbert C. Schulberg -- Conceptual and methodological considerations in evaluating preventive intervention / Raymond P. Lorion and John W. Lounsbury --The health-mental linkage: mandates and challenges for program evaluation research / Donald Wertlieb and Simon Budman -- Linking primary medical care programs with mental health programs / Michael E. Samuels -- Elvating quality assurance programs / William R. Tash, Gerald J. Stahler and Herbert Rappaport -- Conceptual issues in the evaluation of the deinstitutionalization movement / Leona L. Bachrach and H. Richard Lamb -- Community participation in evaluation / Nancy R. Dinkel, Cahrles Windle, and Joan W. Zinober -- Evaluation, assessment: principles and practice / Richard Schmidt, Larry Beyna, and Jerry Haar -- Metaevaluation: an assessment of the congressionally mandated evaluation system for community mental health centers / Thomas D. Cook and William R. Shadish -- Results oriented management: integrating evaluation and organizational performance incentives / Joseph S. Wholey -- Cost effectiveness evaluation in mental health care / Daniel S. Levine -- Qualitative methods of evaluation research: major application for mental health program evaluation / Bruce Rocheleau -- Performance monitoring: response to the 1980 mental health systems act / Ann Majchrzak and William R. Tash -- The concept and measurement of quality of life as a dependent variable in evaluation of mental health services / Douglas A. Bigelow, Gerry Brodsky, Linda Stewart and Madeline Olson -- Enhancing the utilization of mental health evaluation at state and local levels / John F. Stevenson and James A. Ciarlo -- Summary and future directions / William R. Tash and Gerald J. Stahler.