Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments: A Practical Guide
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
803958102
ISBN 13
9780803958104
Category
Social Work
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Issue Period
Systems & Planning, Strategic Planning, Hospital Administration, Test Preparation & Review, Referenc
Subject
Social Work
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Description
Despite the increasing necessity for needs assessments in a variety of fields, much confusion still prevails on how to conduct such assessments successfully. This book is a practical guide to that end. The authors first introduce a three-phase model - preassessment, assessment and postassessment - to clarify the distinctions between the needs of primary service recipients and the people and resources that exist. They go on to describe methods appropriate for gathering data for assessing needs and for causal analysis. The presentation of the framework, the coverage of several approaches for analyzing data, the balanced description of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and the multiple case studies and - from Amzon
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1
