Evaluating Family Programs : Current Issues in Theory and Policy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: Family Support and Education Programs-Challenges and Opportunities -- Part I. The State of Our Knowledge about Program Effectiveness -- Chapter 1. Family Support and Education Programs: Working Through Ecological Theories of Human Development -- Chapter 2. The Five-Tiered Approach to Evaluation: Context and Implementation -- Part II. Measuring Child, Parent, and Family Outcomes -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. Rethinking the Assessment of Child-Focused Outcomes -- Chapter 4. Evaluating Parent-Child Interaction Outcomes of Family Support and Education Programs -- Chapter 5. Measuring Parent Outcomes in Family Program Evaluation -- Chapter 6. Measuring Family Systems Outcomes -- Chapter 7. Measures of Stress and Coping in Families -- Chapter 8. Social Support: Conceptualization and Measurement -- Part III. Evaluation Experiences: Case Studies from the Field -- Introduction -- Chapter 9. Lessons from the Evaluation of the Brookline Early Education Project -- Chapter 10. Common Design and Methodological Problems Encountered in Evaluating Family Support Services: Illustrations from the Prenatal/Early Infancy Project -- Chapter 11. Toward an Understanding of the Program Variable in Comprehensive Parent Support Programs -- Chapter 12. The Evaluation Experience of the AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program -- Chapter 13. Prove to Me that MELD Makes a Difference -- Chapter 14. Toward Experimental Evaluation of the Family, Infant and Preschool Program -- Chapter 15. The Cross-Project Evaluation of the Child Survival/Fair Start Initiative: A Case Study of Action Research -- Chapter 16. The Child Welfare League of America's Adolescent Parents Projects.

Chapter 17. Studying Complexity: The Case of the Child and Family Resource Program -- Chapter 18. Using an Impact Evaluation Model with Too-Early-Childbearing Programs -- Part IV. Current Issues in Theory and Policy -- Introduction -- Chapter 19. Cost Analyses in Family Support Programs -- Chapter 20. The Possibilities and Limitations of Meta-Analysis in Understanding Family Program Impact -- Chapter 21. Programs for Racially and Ethnically Diverse American Families: Some Critical Issues -- Chapter 22. Ecological Perspectives on Change in Families -- Lessons in Context -- Appendix A. Research Instruments and Their Sources -- Appendix B. Glossary of Research and Program Evaluation Terms -- Index.

The diverse composition of American families and changing ways of raising our children have become subjects of intense scrutiny by researchers and policymakers in recent years.

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