Welcome to the Outcome Assessment forum

Welcome to the Behavior OnLine forum on Outcome Assessment: Searching for a New Paradigm to Integrate Science and Practice.

We are happy to welcome Ellen Dornelas, who joins Steven Locke as co-facilitator of this discussion. Ellen has a long-standing interest and considerable in-depth experience in this subject. You can reach her at BOLoutcome@behavior.net and read about her here.

If you are a regular vistor here, you will note change in the emphasis of the discussion. To facilitate that change Ellen has written the following:

"Many of us in the field of mental health/behavioral science are truly vested in innovative practice informed by careful examination of outcomes. This is a forum for both the practitioner and scientist to convene for a thoughtful discussion of outcome assessment. A variety of theoretical issues could be discussed (i.e. what is the difference between outcomes assessment, program evaluation and an effectiveness study). However it has been my experience that a great many practitioners in private practice, community mental health centers, psychiatric hospitals and general medical hospitals are feeling an urgent need to plan and implement some type of an evaluation of services. A variety of consulting services have sprung up overnight to offer the solutions but the best solutions to evaluating outcomes come from thought and experience. Rather than purchasing the latest software, we invite scientists, practitioners and consumers to share opinions. In the spirit of bettering our discipline, we would like to give away the knowledge on how to conduct outcome evaluation."

I will be here and so will Gil Levin, Behavior OnLine's Editor and Publisher. Questions about using the forum software are best addressed to me on the General Forum or in private e-mail.

I am glad you found your way here and I look forward to our discussion.

With my best regards,
John Grohol
Associate Editor
Behavior OnLine

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• New Forum Emphasis Supported! by Steven Locke, M.D., 9/19/96
  • Outcome Assessment Forum for BOL by Ellen A. Dornelas, Ph.D., 9/19/96
    • CROSS CULTURAL ASSESMENT by Fitz Douglas London England. , 9/19/96
      • others doing cross-cultural assessment? by Ellen Dornelas, Ph.D., 9/24/96
        • Cross Cultural:: Therapeutic Communities in Prison. by David Szymanowski, 11/29/96
          • Evaluating an Individual's Feeling of Belonging by Henry Stein, 12/14/96
          • Prison as a culture: Assimilation and Adjustment by G. Shawn Reynolds, 8/12/97
      • Assimilation of psychiatric patients into the hospital culture by Robert Adelman, 9/25/97
        • Kelly Grid by David Szymanowski, 10/6/97
    • General comments and attrition by Cindy Gruman, 10/2/96
      • Minimizing Attrition by Ellen Dornelas, 10/3/96
        • What to do about attrition by E. H. Fischer, 10/8/96
          • Addressing sampling bias concerns by Mike Placona Ph. D., 10/10/96
            • Attrition by Terry Mason MPH, 3/9/98
    • outcome measurement in recovery across a wide range of mental health challenges by sarahboldison.@3wa.uk.www, 2/17/98
  • Outcomes Assessment for Children by Ellen Dornelas, Ph.D., 4/16/96
    • Objective Behavioral Measurement by C. F. Nelson, 7/13/96
      • Objective Behavioral Measurement..would like to know more. by Toni Ann Spunar MSN, RNCS, 7/27/96
        • Details about Group Participation Scale by C. F. Nelson, 8/15/96
          • Group Participation Scale by JoAnn, 10/3/96
            • GPPRS Scale by C. F. Nelson, 11/2/96
              • GPPRS: references by Ed Tryk, Ph. D., 10/7/97
            • objective behavior assessment of high school students with behavior disorders by Jane Pitts- Greer, MSW, 3/1/98
          • The Jeepers Scale... skewing the results? by Jim Burke, Orientation & Mobility Specialist, 11/6/96
            • To Jim concerning GPPRS by C. F. Nelson, 11/7/96
          • Where can I get a copy? by Kellyw@goodnet.com, 4/10/97
        • (No title) by janie mehrbrodt r.n., c., 1/27/97
        • Anyone Home? by (No author), 2/6/97
    • Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children by M. Runtz, Ph.D., 11/8/96
      • Questions on Trauma Symptom Check List by Ellen Dornelas, Ph.D., 11/13/96
    • Outcomes Assessment for Children-Reply by Curtis W. Reisinger, Ph.D., 8/4/97
      • Youth Outcome Questionnaire by Ellen Dornelas, 8/27/97
    • Reliable & valid measures for children by Steven M.S. Kurtz, Ph.D., 9/18/97
      • Achenbach YSR by David Colton, Ph.D., 1/29/98
    • Reliable & valid measures for children by Steven M.S. Kurtz, Ph.D., 9/18/97
      • CBCL (Achenbach) appears to lack sensitivity ot change. by Curtis W. Reisinger, Ph.D., 9/23/97
  • Functional Communication Training by marion stepien, 4/23/97
    • Can you describe in more detail? by Ellen Dornelas, 4/24/97
      • functional communication is:- by marion stepien, 4/24/97
        • Functional Communication Training by Ellen Dornelas, 5/2/97
• Marital relationships research by Earl S. Schaefer, 10/29/96
  • Questions about Marital Relationship Research by Ellen Dornelas, 10/29/96
    • address for marital inventory by Earl S. Schaefer, 11/2/96
  • Searching for marital adjustment scale by Steven Locke, 1/12/98
• Patient satisfaction measure sought by Steven Locke, MD, 1/12/98
• Help with Behavioral Change measurement by Dee Kaufman, 3/27/98