Single subject designs
Single subject design is the backbone
What is practice evaluation
Nominal, ordinal, interval and scale
What is levels of measurement
most frequently used single subject design.
What is B (intervention only) design
Can be developed at the individual, family, group, organizational, community, and social levels
What is interventions
What is agenda
Develop operational definition of target
what is something you can measure
Validity, Reliability, Measurement error, Utility, Directness
What is key characteristics of all measurements
The existence of a baseline allows for the establishment of a relationship between intervention and outcome.
AB (Baseline and intervention design)
Range from single techniques (motivational interviewing) to multi-element programs (assertive community treatment)
What is social work interventions
flexible, could be used with all clients and case situations, do not require much time to administer and score, may get at targets that no other measure could tap
What is IRS (individual rating scale)
Definition from dictionary
what is conceptional definition
1.Reliable
2.Valid
3.Sensitive to change
4.Non-reactive
5.Direct
6.Easy to use
7.Accessible
8.Relevant to intervention planning
What is characters of good measurement
Allows for evaluation of pre-intervention and intervention problem status.
ABA (basic withdrawal design)
What is narratives
(one problem per scale), usually in horizontal format
What is single dimension
Two types of goals: ultimate and intermediate
What is goal specification
Standardized measures, RAI’s, Observational Measures, Individual rating Scales, Client logs
What is various types of measurements
Allows for evaluation across clients, situations, or problems.
Multiple baseline design
What is audiotape
a point on a rating scale that the respondent can select to represent the degree of target’s seriousness, intensity, importance, frequency, etc.
What is response category
Start where the client is
What is survey client concerns
The measure does not capture all of the essential features of the concept
What is terms of validity what can go wrong
The specific intervention that you will implement with client is not in place yet. Usually, but not always occur before the intervention
What is baselining
what is videotapes
behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that a client would be experiencing at each point on the scale.
What is anchors