Intervention Processes and Techniques for Use Across Systems

Question 1

Formative Evaluations

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Ongoing processes that allow for feedback to be implemented during service delivery. These types of evaluations allow social workers to make changes as needed to help achieve program goals. Needs assessments can be viewed as one type of formative evaluation.

Question 2

Summative evaluations

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occur at the end of services and provide an overall description of their effectiveness. Summative evaluation examines outcomes to determine whether objectives were met. Summative evaluations enable decisions to be made regarding future service directions that cannot be made during implementation. Impact evaluations and cost-benefit analyses are types of summative evaluations.

Question 3

Experimental

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a method of research in the social sciences (such as sociology or psychology) in which a controlled experimental factor is subjected to special treatment for purposes of comparison with a factor kept constant

Question 4

Quasi-Experimental

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research involves the manipulation of an independent variable without the random assignment of participants to conditions or orders of conditions. Among the important types are nonequivalent groups designs, pretest-posttest, and interrupted time-series designs

Question 5

Covert Modeling

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When clients are asked to use their imagination, visualize the desired behavior, and describe it in detail

Question 6

Self-Modeling

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When clients are videotaped demonstrating the desired behavior and this tape is watched and discussed.

Question 7

Live Modeling

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watching a real person performing the desired behavior

Question 8

Symbolic modeling

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watching others who have been videotaped perform the desired behavior.

Question 9

Participant modeling

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individual models anxiety-evoking behaviors for a client and then prompts the client to engage in the behavior