From practice evaluation to agency evaluation: Demonstrating outcomes to the United way

Social Work in Mental Health

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1-14

  Neuman, Karen ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency evaluation; Goal attainment scaling; Outcomes; Practice evaluation; Single subject design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937378856     PISSN: 15332985     EISSN: 15332993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J200v01n02_01     Document Type: Article

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