Welcome Behavioral Health Agency

Section one:
This week you will be making a final decision regarding the instruments that you will use to assess your programs.  Provide the name of each instrument that you have chosen to use in your evaluation, along with full citation and reference, and address each of the following:

What is the evidence of the instruments’ validity?  (Provide sources)
What is the evidence of the instruments’ reliability?  (Provide sources)
What is the cost of the instruments?
What are the main reasons you selected these assessment instruments over other alternatives?

Section 2:
Program evaluation must fit the needs of an agency, taking into consideration the clientele, programs, and staff available.
If you were design a research study to answer the same research questions addressed in your program evaluation proposal without the constraints of having to use a particular agency, how would your research design be different?  For example, could you design a clinical trial to test effectiveness of treatments?  Would you be able to randomly assign participants to groups and run a true experiment?

Section 3:
What statistical analyses will you need to conduct to determine the effectiveness of your programs?  Be sure to address each program; include the measurement scale of the variables that you will be analyzing as well as the statistics needed to analyze the data.