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
