Utilizing Client Outcomes to Improve the Delivery of Mental Health Services: Coping with Organizational Realities, Concerns about Relevance, and the Believability of the Data.

Green, Rex S., Ed.; Newman, Frederick L., Ed.

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Publication Date: 1993

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Utilizing Client Outcomes to Improve the Delivery of Mental Health Services: Coping with Organizational Realities, Concerns about Relevance, and the Believability of the Data.

Green, Rex S., Ed.; Newman, Frederick L., Ed.

Evaluation and Program Planning, v16 n4 p325-76 Oct-Dec 1993

The six articles of this special section address the organizational context that shapes utilization of mental health services, the relevance of data elements and results to decision making, and assuring the validity of evaluation results. Theoretical and practical concerns are considered. (SLD)

Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Coping, Data Collection, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Utilization, Homeless People, Mental Disorders, Mental Health Programs, Organizational Climate, Outcomes of Treatment, Psychiatric Services, Validity

Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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