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von Hagen, Alexa; Müller, Bettina; Sedlak, Anna; Bachmann, Gerhard; Herbert, Jana; Büttner, Gerhard – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2022
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote school psychological services have increased notably in many countries. With the aim of supporting evidence-based practices, we conducted a rapid systematic evidence review on the efficacy of remote as compared to in-person school psychological services. From a total of 3,873 references identified…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Human Services, Mental Health
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Yoo, Jane; Brooks, Devon; Patti, Rino – Child Welfare, 2007
Organizational context, including line worker characteristics and service settings, may help explain the equivocal findings of intervention studies in the field of child welfare. Yet organizational context has been largely ignored in studies of child welfare interventions. The purpose of this article is to expound upon the likely role of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Child Welfare, Predictor Variables, Intervention
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Ellinger, Alexander E.; Elmadag, Ayse Banu; Ellinger, Andrea D. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2007
Firms with the ability to provide superior customer service can accrue significant competitive advantage and research suggests that frontline service employees' (FLSEs) actions have a considerable influence on the success of service operations. Yet, the high level of customer defections consistently attributed to poor and indifferent service…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Service Occupations
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Kazdin, Alan E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Reviews outcome evidence of psychotherapy for children and adolescents. Illustrates progress in treatment research, highlighting alternative treatments and factors that contribute to outcome in treatment of conduct problem children. Sees pace of progress thwarted by challenges of subject matter and deficiencies in current research. Nonetheless,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Outcomes of Treatment
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Maes, Bea; Lambrechts, Greet; Hostyn, Ine; Petry, Katja – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2007
Background: This study provides an overview of empirical research on the effectiveness of quality-enhancing interventions for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). Method: Through computerised searches of the PsycINFO and ERIC databases, and using several search criteria specifically relating to the target group and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Multiple Disabilities, Community Involvement, Client Characteristics
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Reid, William J. – Social Work Research, 1997
Provides an overview of the task-centered model of social work practice. Reviews findings that support the model's effectiveness, as well as studies that identified several correlates of positive outcomes, such as client commitment to do the task. Claims that new research will focus on the model's application to new problems. (RJM)
Descriptors: Client Attitudes (Human Services), Intervention, Models, Program Effectiveness
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Wynne, Louis – Administration in Mental Health, 1979
While mental health center inpatient services will probably remain largely unaffected by diminishing federal grants, this loss of financial support will affect outpatient care. This paper examines how staffing patterns and work-load levels affect the ability to generate fee-for-service income from outpatient services while holding down costs.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Financial Support, Human Services, Mental Health Clinics
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Barrett, S. S. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
This article examines factors influencing the provision of high-quality services to individuals who are deaf-blind. Various definitions of this population and the unique challenges in serving them are addressed, as are transitional services, gaps in services, the importance of interagency collaboration, and components of a successful service…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Deaf Blind
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Christian, Walter P.; Luce, Stephen C. – School Psychology Review, 1985
Self-help training is most effective when it involves assessing skills and deficits prior to training; developing training goals based upon consideration of the individual's ultimate level of functioning; preparing the training environment; implementing effective training programs; evaluating training effectiveness; and promoting maintenance and…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Services, Program Effectiveness
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Hser, Yih-Ing – Evaluation Review, 1995
This article discusses the literature on drug treatment counselor practices and effectiveness and discusses relevant issues in a multilevel framework by considering client outcome in relation to varying characteristics of clients, counselors, and programs. A conceptual model is presented for understanding counselor effects on client outcomes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselors
Salisbury, Christine L. – 1990
This paper presents information to assist in the planning and development of policy related to the education of very young children with disabilities. The paper first considers research-supported reasons for providing early childhood intervention services based on effectiveness data from many sources. Subsequent sections examine: (1)…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
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Frumkin, Michael – Administration in Mental Health, 1982
Proposes a framework for assessing how human service delivery systems function. Identifies factors that influence the ability of agencies to operate as a unified system. Provides an accurate picture of how services are delivered to target populations, and why various systems function as they do. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Human Services
Dryfoos, Joy G. – 1995
"Full-service schools" present opportunities for communities to construct solutions at the local level that unite people and resources in times of stress. Among these schools are school-based health centers, youth-service centers, family-resource centers, Beacons/lighted schoolhouses, and community schools. They share the provision of community…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Services
Gray, Maryann Jacobi; And Others – 1993
The National Service (NS) program links financial assistance for education to community service. Four issues of primary concern arise as policymakers and program planners move from the program's concept to the fine points of its design and implementation: (1) achieving balance among the program's conflicting goals; (2) expanding educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Evaluation Needs, Higher Education
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
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