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Marks, Beth; Sisirak, Jasmina; Heller, Tamar – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
Adults with developmental disabilities are at significant risk for health problems. Effective health promotion can improve outcomes--and that's why adult day and residential agencies, schools, and other organizations need this invaluable program development guide. An urgent call to action and a start-to-finish framework for health promotion, this…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Physical Disabilities, Quality of Life
Dana, Richard H. – 1978
A model for program evaluation with pertinent data from a variety of methods applied in six settings is described. The settings include two university clinical psychology programs at Alabama and Kansas; the Memphis Internship Consortium; the University of Arkansas Student Development Center component of the Counseling Unit; and two county social…
Descriptors: Action Research, Clinical Psychology, Consultants, Evaluation Methods
Downs, Susan Whitelaw – 1994
This report provides an overview of neighborhood-based family-support programs and describes the development of the family-support movement. It includes sections on the definition of neighborhood-based family-support programs, the principles and theories on which they are based, a discussion of the problems they are designed to address, a…
Descriptors: Administration, Community Programs, Cooperation, Family Life
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1977
This publication was developed to provide guidelines for persons conducting continuing education programs for community mental health caregivers. (This would include persons primarily involved in the delivery of health, educational, and social welfare services who also are involved in the psychosocial functioning of their clients.) Following a…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Human Services, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs
Angelini, Dennis E.; Murphy, John F. – 1975
One of a series of manuals developed by the Home and Community-Based Career Education Project, the publication presents the activities of the project's research and evaluation component, which continually informs the staff about project development and describes client characteristics, needs, decisions, and plans. Generic issues which must be…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Evaluation Methods, Human Services
Bradley, Valerie J.; And Others – 1987
The monograph advances a conceptual framework for the evaluation of mental health services provided to chronically mentally ill persons by psychosocial rehabilitation programs. Evaluation mechanisms consistent with the philosophy and programmatic aims of psychosocial rehabilitation programs are identified. An introductory section provides a brief…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Chronic Illness, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Cost Effectiveness
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1977
These guidelines on the uses of individualized and fixed curriculum approaches to instruction were developed for persons responsible for conducting professional continuing education programs in mental health. Following a brief introduction and definitions of terms, major content is presented in three sections covering the following areas: the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Certification, Conventional Instruction