Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Outcome-Based Evaluation:
Cross-National Perspectives
Anthony N. Maluccio, Cinzia Canali, and Tiziano Vecchiato
1 Current Initiatives in the Development of Outcome-Based
Evaluation of Children's Services
Harriet Ward
2 The Black Box: Accounting for Program Inputs When
Assessing Outcomes
Edith Fein
3 The Evaluation of "Community Building": Measuring the
Social Effects of Community-Based Practice
Robert J. Chaskin
4 Outcome-Based Evaluation of National Health and
Social Programs
Tiziano Vecchiato
5 Nonexperimental Methods of Evaluating Social Programs:
Applications for Child and Family Services
Robert Goerge
6 An Intervention to Reduce Smoking Habits through
Counseling from the General Practitioner
Giovanni Pilati, Elizabeth Tamang, and Luca Gino Sbrogio
7 Improving Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents:
Strategies and Lessons
John Landsverk and Inger Davis
8 Evaluating Social and Health Services with Children,
Adults, and Elderly Persons
Alessandro Pompei
9 Outcomes Are Dependent on Inputs: Does Risk Assessment
Inform Service Delivery?
Marianne Berry and Scottye J. Cash
10 A Learning-Organization Approach to Evaluation
Lois Wright and Kathy Paget
11 Outcome Studies in the Context of Organizational Inertia
and Political Ideology
Frank Ainsworth
12 Family Service Centers: Lessons From National and
Local Evaluations
Anita Lightburn
Author Index
Subject Index