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Throughout our discussions of intervention, we have consistently maintained the importance of program evaluation as an integral part of the intervention process. The purpose of this chapter is to focus specific attention on the evaluation stage. It should be noted that program evaluation is almost a discipline in itself and many sociologists and other social scientists are often employed as program evaluators. Their task is to evaluate ongoing programs for clients who call upon them for this specific activity. This chapter is not intended to be a treatise on program evaluation from that perspective. Here, our concern will focus on a subset of the broader world of program evaluation: program evaluation as a part, a stage in an overall intervention. That is, we direct your attention to the situation where the clinical sociologist works with a specific client/client system to design and implement a specific problem-solving intervention.
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Bruhn, J.G., Rebach, H.M. (1996). Program Evaluation. In: Clinical Sociology. Clinical Sociology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2516-2_6
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