Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your paper: Purpose of the Program Evaluation: Describe the purpose of a program evaluation in evidence-based practice. How
COU 600 Program Evaluation Case Study Setting: Community Mental Health Center Service: Counseling Group for Adults Suffering from Depression Service Providers: Masters-level Licensed Professional Counselor Data: Beck Depression Inventory Description of Measure: The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a 21-item, self-report rating inventory that measures characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression (Beck, et al., 1961). The BDI has been developed in different forms, including several computerized forms, a card form, the 13-item short form, and the more recent BDI-11 by Beck and Brown (May, Urquhart, & Tarran, 1969, cited in Groth-Marnat, 1990; see Steer, Rissmiller, & Beck, 2000, for information on the clinical utility of the BDI-11.) The BDI takes approximately 10 minutes to complete, although clients require a fifth- to sixth-grade reading level to adequately understand the questions (Groth-Marnat, 1990). Internal consistency for the BDI ranges from .73 to .92, with a mean of .86 (Beck, Steer, & Garbin, 1988). Similar reliabilities have been found for the 13-item short form (Groth-Marnat, 1990). The BDI demonstrates high internal consistency, with alpha coefficients of .86 and .81 for psychiatric and nonpsychiatric populations, respectively (Beck et al., 1988).
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your paper: Purpose of the Program Evaluation: Describe the purpose of a program evaluation in evidence-based practice. How
COU 600 Week Seven Group Worksheet Prompt: Use the planning session area of this worksheet to record the questions assigned to each group member. Decide on a date when each of you will upload your individual part of this assignment, which Bongo terms a milestone. Group members should assign milestones to keep the project on course: In the group activity page, click “New Milestone.” A window will open to create and assign a milestone, including a due date for the task. Communication and Collaboration: Note that, as adults, you may have different work habits and expectations of yourselves. If you find yourself having difficulty with the group, first begin by communicating with each other. If necessary, bring your instructor into the communication. Be proactive—think about your group members as you plan your timeline for this assignment. If you find yourself on the last day needing to submit your work without a group member, do so. Do not hold your work because one group member’s work is not available. Instead, comment in the reflection about the missing elements and submit your work in a timely manner. Planning Session: Be sure to complete this section during the planning session, as it counts toward the grade for this assignment. Student Name Questions Assigned Contact (Email) Time Zone/Availability Date Agreed for Upload Stephanie Badio 5-6 [email protected] Eastern time sunday Olivia 3-4 [email protected] Eastern time Sunday Kimberly 1-2 [email protected] Eastern time Sunday All of us 7 and 8 (together) Planning Session Notes: Complete this section as a group during your planning session. You may place any notes here. Collaboration: During the planning session, work to begin answering the questions below using the case study. Then, decide who will be assigned each question for polishing into a final answer. Once your question(s) have been polished, share your version of the document with the group. In your final submission, all areas of this worksheet should be completed, so you will compile the other group members’ responses below as well. Who are the stakeholders for the program evaluation? In the program evaluation the stakeholders are the individuals participated such as mastered level professional incensed counselors and the mental health community center according to the case study. What is the goal of the evaluation? The goal for this evaluation is to determine by using the information given if the therapy group taken place is given an accurate understanding that if the symptoms one feel is that suffer from depression is actually working if used. Also, with the help of college students and geriatric patients the goal is to evaluate the measuring of depression. “self-report rating inventory that measures characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression” (Beck, et al., 1961). How would you assess the evaluation design? To assess the evaluation design, I would first take a look at the case study and looking at the methods, data collected and by who to assess counselor should do a pretest and posttest for randomly assigned. The assess evaluation is to determine the program effectiveness by looking at both graph What information can you determine from the data you have been provided? I can determine the numerical that are collected, patterns, and also how well and the changes in the data from the participants. Minimal range score 0-13, mild range score 14-19, moderate score 20-28, severe range score 29-63. (back depression inventory,2011). In group one the answers are more challenging compared to group 2 where they are starting to make more sense of life. For example, one participant answer was, “ my life is not lonely anymore” How many data sources (and what types of data) are you working with (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio, text, photo, etc.)? Working with text data, demographic data, and nominal data, Based on what you know, is the assessment instrument valid and reliable? The assessment is valid according to the information given because the information is accurate, but not reliable because there was no consistent of participants scores provided What statistical computations would you run on the quantitative data? Conduct the following three analyses on the test scores and the descriptive data: Mean Median Mode Identify two other potential analyses you would be interested in conducting on the quantitative data. A: mean g1 pre-test=31 g1 post-test 24 G2 post-test=33 G2pre-test=32. Median G1 pretest =28. G2 pretest =33 g1 post-test =23 g2post test=30. Mode g1 pretest=0 g2 pretest=33. G1posttest=23. G2 posttest=30 B: questionnaires, survey collected or statistical data, number of times particular value is observed What information can you derive from the answers that group members provided to the open-ended questions? Do you notice any trends in the data? Is any of the text data incongruent with the numeric data? A: From the information given the seem to be a pattern, participants in group 2 answers are show that they are more hopeful compared to group 1 a lot of negative self-thoughts in group 1. A lot of short answers in both groups. B: a lot of participants in the survey answers were different some felt fine and others were not. In the post test many were scoring higher than others and some had none. It was a different age group Reflection: Complete this section individually. Include it in your final submission. What were your contributions to this assignment? Completed 2 questions and we did the last two together. I helped come up with the accurate answers and worked together as a team to come up with the best time that works for all party involved What challenges did your group experience? I think the challenge we experienced as a group was understanding the project in general. It was very blurry to us and the expectations in what to past in and the steps to take toward completing the worksheet How might the insights you gained while working with this small group help you in your work as a counselor? Although this is not my first time working in a group, I think it just helps my communication skills, and understanding that everyone has different learning skills. It will be helpful in counseling because as a counselor we have to adjust and understand not all clients will be the same some will be more challenging than others. Describe how your understanding of the role of a program evaluation in clinical practice changed, as well as the change in your own preparedness to evaluate the effectiveness of your clinical work. It changed because at first, I thought were going to conduct meso skill counseling skill. I think one of the things I can do better prepared is to read the work over and over prior to starting my session and come in early For each group member, indicate their contribution to the group in the rows below. Consider their team involvement, time management, and communication: See below Group Member Name: Kimberly Comments: attentive give great ideas on ways to communicate complete 2 questions Group Member Name: Stephanie Comments: punctual and came up with time management and set group text to communicate with members Group Member Name: Olivia Comments: great leadership skills, went over questions together prior to passing it in submitted bongo video and made bongo and set up bongo video schedule Group Member Name: NA Comments: