Amazon.com description: Product Description: This text will prepare you to optimize outcome evaluations -- both to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of children's mental health services and to develop strategies for improvement. Tracking the challenges and successes of systems and agencies of all sizes across the country, preservice and in-service professionals will examine various methods used to measure outcomes, learn what strategies have worked, and discover how to adapt existing databases for individual needs. Through the real-life work experiences of a range of practicing professionals, you'll learn how to use outcome-based evaluation strategies to ensure that mental health services help the children who need them.