Toolkits & Materials
TECScripts | FastFacts
About the Toolkits & Materials Program
The Center creates and disseminates toolkits and materials to assist
evaluators, mental health care providers, and policy makers involved in
evaluation. The most recent toolkits and materials have been in the area of
Quality Improvement measures, creating manuals and workbooks for psychosocial
interventions, a compendium on the conceptualization and measurement of
recovery, and a monograph that presents a brief history of evidence-based
practices.
Evaluators from different areas are frequently working on
similar studies, but may not have the opportunity to learn about methodologies
that their colleagues have developed and field tested. Similarly, mental health
care providers and policy makers may be faced with the same substantive
evaluation challenges as their colleagues.
Toolkits provide evaluators, mental health care providers, and
policy makers involved in evaluation with complete packages related to the
evaluation of particular substantive issues. The toolkits give users ready
access to some of the most current approaches and instructions on how to
implement sound evaluation studies. The toolkits contain information on such
things as instruments, methodology, and data analysis and utilization.
Materials provide technical assistance in the area of evaluation.
Materials include: Center briefings, syntheses of existing evaluation
literature on selected topics, book reviews, monographs on system change
evaluation, and reviews of new instruments, methodologies, and software
packages.
Toolkits and materials are available in the areas of:
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Outcomes Measurement
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Evaluation Methodology and Statistics
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Managed Care
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Performance Measurement & Quality
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Internet Evaluation Issues
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Multicultural Issues in Evaluation
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Evidence-based Practices
Most of the materials developed by TEC can be downloaded free of charge. Use the search box to the right
to locate items (e.g. Outcomes and Methodolgy). This search will also locate items by product number (i.e. PN-54). You can also
peruse the entire catalog by using the links in the upper right hand corner.
[back to top] FastFacts
Through the Toolkits and Materials Program, the Center also makes
available Evaluation FastFacts which are 2-3 page briefings of new and current
mental health services evaluations, resource, and/or methods. These briefings
provide a quick and easy way for constituents to learn important and timely
information in the field of evaluation. The most recent FastFacts is on HIPPA.
Order FastFacts
[back to top] TECScripts
The Center also makes available TECScripts which are transcripts of
on-line discussions about specific topics. The discussions take place as part
of the electronic mailing lists of the e-Community Program.
TECScripts provide a compilation of on-line discussions on specific topics.
TECScripts are available in the areas of:
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Dealing with Therapists' Resistance to Outcomes
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Written Treatment Plans and Mental Health Outcomes
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The Need for Fundamental Change in Healthcare.
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Outcome Measures for Children and Adolescents
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Evidence-Based Treatment (EBTs)
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Objectives Based Treatment Plans
Order TECSCRIPTS
If you would like more information on the program and/or
specific projects please contact Clifton M Chow, Program Manager at
chow@hsri.org
[back to top] Guided ToursGuided Tour of the Recovery Compendium Toolkit
This guided tour is an introductory overview of what you will find in “Can We Measure Recovery? A compendium of Recovery and recovery-related instruments” toolkit. The study of recovery in mental health and the development of instruments to measure it are in their infancy. One of the major challenges to studying recovery is that the concept of recovery is not well defined, so studies and instrumentation vary widely. The instruments in this collection have been found through an extensive review of mental health literature and through informal networking with recovery investigators.
http://hsri.breezecentral.com/p41607362/ Guided Tour of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Fidelity
This promo is an overview of the toolkit that offers a working guide for the development of fidelity measures to be used in assessing the implementation of psychiatric rehabilitation program models. The printed toolkit describes the origins of fidelity measures and discusses their research and practical applications, reviews current models in psychiatric rehabilitation, and provides a detailed guide for developing fidelity measures.
http://hsri.breezecentral.com/p17933990/ Guided Tour of the Quality of Life Interview
This tour is offered as an overview of what you will find in the toolkit titled: “Evaluating Quality of Life for Persons with Severe Mental Illness.” “Quality of life” concerns have gained considerable currency throughout the entire field of health care evaluation during the past decade. Driving the movement toward quality of life research is a humanitarian concern about the overall well-being of patients, not just the status of their disease processes. The production of new measures has been so rapid from so many different specialties that the sheer volume of the measures and the concepts underlying them has produced considerable confusion. The printed toolkit is designed to facilitate the use of one of these measures, the Lehman Quality of Life Interview, Full and Brief version.
http://hsri.breezecentral.com/p33402421/ Guided Tour on Manuals & Workbooks
This tour is offered as an overview of what you will find in the toolkit on Manuals and Workbooks. The printed toolkit is designed to provide a step-by-step guide for preparing a manual or workbook for a practice. The toolkit identifies essential elements of manuals and workbooks, describes these elements, and provides exemplary illustrations of the elements.
http://hsri.breezecentral.com/p34636985/
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