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Evaluating Practicecontinues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available Focusing on single-system designs, Evaluating Practice, Fifth Edition, presents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation. Specifically written for students and practitioners in all the human services, including social work, psychology, counseling, nursing and psychiatry. Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts for bringing clarity to evaluation procedures, Evaluating Practice comes with a free CD-ROM featuring numerous programs, including the innovative SINGWIN program for analyzing data (created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Yeshiva University), and the CASS and CAAP programs (created by Walter Hudson) for managing cases and scoring scales. The improved and expanded CD-ROM contains an "Intervention Plan" form that can be used to develop a comprehensive intervention and evaluation plan of action that parallels chapters in the text.The CD-ROM also contains a new "running case" that can be used interactively to try out concepts and procedures from the text. Significant updates to SINGWIN (on CD-Rom), including the incorporation of new statistical procedures designed for ease of application. And the prologue offers an extensive case illustrating the integration of practice, ethics, and evaluation for students, making the text even more appealing to practitioners..
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Infidelity is the most common major crisis of marriage In this wise book, a psychiatrist and family therapist discusses four kinds of infidelity, why they happen, and what they mean..
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All managers want to hold their employees accountable for results, but few know how. Moving beyond the far-from-ideal annual performance review -- which only evaluates what has already occurred, and not what the manager wants to achieve -- Keeping Employees Accountable for Results contains checklists, how-tos, and other tools to manage performance on an ongoing basis. The book gives busy managers quick, step-by-step advice on: * Setting expectations * Monitoring progress * Giving feedback * Following through Light on theory and heavy on practical application, Keeping Employees Accountable for Results gives time-pressed managers the proven, practical information they need to help their people accomplish more..
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For Introduction to School Counseling courses. From two experienced counselor educators who have experience in and a passion for the preparation of school counselors comes a revision of this popular school counseling text, embraced by professors and students alike for its accessible writing style and practical applications. The text retains well-liked and important features such as case studies, margin notes, and stimulus questions. The introductory cases in each chapter provide the students a context for applying the content of the text. The margin notes, stimulus questions, and suggested portfolio components allow students to personalize much of the material to their particular grade level interests. The second edition has been greatly expanded and revised throughout to reflect important developments in the field, including the ASCA National Model for School Counseling programs, the school counseling specialty standards articulated by CACREP, and the increasing focus on how to define and measure accountability in school counseling programs. Additionally, readers will find that each chapter has been revised to include important new developments and trends, including chapters on data-driven programming and accountability, facilitating developmental transitions, legal and ethical issues, and new material in the two chapters devoted to direct and indirect interventions delivered through responsive services..
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A practical guide to bringing accountability into the workplace and into the daily life of managers and staff.

This book provides a working guide, through specific examples, of what accountability is; how to instill it within your company; and how to measure and quantify its effectiveness.

Accountability has become significantly more important as corporate scandals have rocked the country. Here is the one book to have to bring positive change to your workplace and daily life.

* By the author of The Power of Personal Accountability (Xephor, 2004)
* A key topic for all corporate managers
* By one of America's foremost Accountability experts..
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How should a manager handle different accountability expectations? While a commonplace term in government lexicon, accountability has escaped precise definition, leaving managers at a disadvantage when trying to monitor the performance of their programs.

Including more than 300 programs, over 60,000 employees, and a budget of over $400 billion, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is an ideal canvas for starkly illustrating competing accountability demands. With a bird's-eye view of the agency's inner workings, Radin tackles big issues such as strategies of centralization and decentralization, coordination with states and localities, leadership, and program design, while using the apt analogy of a juggler to show how managers must keep in the air disparate demands and developments..
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The present crisis in the American Catholic Church stems from a two-fold source: lay people are powerless while the bishops are accountable to no one but the pope and the curia. While the number of lay people exercising ministries in the Church has grown enormously over the past thirty years (largely due to the shortage of priests), there has been little or no theological reflection till now on the genuine role of the laity. It is only from such reflection that structural reform of the Church will come. The first half of The Liberation of the Laity concentrates on the fortunes of the laity, theologically speaking, between Vatican I (1870) and Vatican II (1962 - 65). It examines the growth of the 'new theology' in France in the 1940s and 1950s, and shows how in the work of one of its leading practitioners, Yves Congar, much of the vision of the laity expressed at Vatican II was anticipated. Seeing the years after the council as decades of missed opportunity to recognize the role of the laity, the book turns to a series of constructive proposals for the liberation of the laity, and thus the liberation of the Church. It discusses the importance of 'secularity,' the need for a 'lay liberation theology,' and the centrality of the struggles against global capitalism in the mission of the Church. It ends with a chapter envisioning dramatic changes in ministry and governing structures, in which accountability will be central, 'servant leaders' will include women and married people, and both ecclesiastical careerism and the College of Cardinals will be history..
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Engage in workbook study leading men and women to explore the lifetransforming call that God gives every follower of Christ..
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