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You are here: TxDirector > Addiction MedicineAdministrator's CornerClinical SupervisionClinicians CornerColumnistsCounselor WellnessCredentialingDomestic ViolenceEmploymentFamily IssuesMental HealthOf Interest To EveryonePreventionReaders RequestsReading RoomSelf-HelpSpiritualityTreatmentTreatment Populations > AccreditationBusiness StructureEmployee Assistance ProgramsEthicsFunding and FiscalLegal IssuesMarketingOperationsOutcomes MeasurementStarting a Treatment ServiceSupervision The Importance of Validity - How to avoid garbage in-garbage out 2008-01-03 Topic: Administrator's Corner By Sarah Kenneth For many consumers their only concern with validity is that their survey has it. After all, isn't validity just another of 'those statistical things'? According to the American Psychological Association, validity "...refers to the appropriateness, meaningfulness, and usefulness of the specific inferences made from test scores." View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Evidence-Based Practices for Treating Substance Use Disorders - Talking Points 2007-07-27 Topics: Administrator's Corner | Clinical Supervision | Clinicians Corner | Of Interest To Everyone By Barry L. Duncan, Psy.D. The intent here is not to demonize EBP - any approach can be just the ticket for a particular client - but rather expose its limitations because it is often wielded as a mandate for competent and ethical practice. Such edicts are gross misrepresentations of the data and blatant misuses of the evidence. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Prevention Pathways On-line Courses 2006-11-29 Topics: Administrator's Corner | Of Interest To Everyone | Treatment Populations Through this site CSAP offers prevention courses that are free to the public. Some courses are meant for professionals and have continuing education credits available. A variety of informative courses are ready to use. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Balancing Measures: Best Practices in Performance Management 2006-09-25 Topic: Administrator's Corner When the Government Performance and Results Act was first implemented, many felt that government management was somehow "different," that the same rules that applied to the private sector could not apply to the public, or at least not in the same way. After all, government agencies don't have a bottom line or profit margin. But recent efforts, as this study shows again and again, attest that is not true. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Needs Assessment Tools 2005-12-01 Topic: Administrator's Corner By Landon Kimbrough Surveys are one type of assessment tool for alcohol, drug and mental health treatment programs. Download a description of others and suggestions for their use. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Developing An Outcomes System 2005-09-03 Topic: Administrator's Corner By Landon Kimbrough Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Strategic Planning - Why Bother? 2005-08-26 Topic: Administrator's Corner By Richard Green Statistics show that businesses that plan run a better chance of succeeding. Even when faced with such data, many small business owners deny the need to use their time for planning. They question the applicability of such efforts to operations like theirs, and insist the ideas in their heads are enough. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Measuring What You Do 2005-08-26 Topic: Administrator's Corner By Landon Kimbrough Just like building a house, measuring what you do at your treatment agency begins with a set of plans. In business planning this is usually your mission statement and your written goals, objectives and action plans. Because our organizations are always changing, planning is on a continuing basis. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback   Showing 1-8 of 8

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