Product Description: This book is a comprehensive survey of the current state of assessment in the field of drama therapy. Drama therapy assessment methods must be embedded within the discipline's core philosophy, and thus drama therapy will not develop fully as an independent field until it can generate its own assessment criteria and methods...read more

This book addresses one of the most dynamic, complicated, and challenging areas in the field of creative arts therapies. It is the result of seven years of research into the complex question of how arts media can be adapted, structured, and implemented as assessment tools. By tackling the difficult problems of satisfactory assessment, the authors offer a scientist-practitioner model for creative arts professions not previously available. In each chapter devoted to one of the creative arts therapies, they illuminate the process of creating tools that use arts media, creating them under real-world conditions, thereby encouraging readers to consider how they might similarly proceed in their own endeavors. The core of the book, devoted to developing and applying assessment, utilizes tools that were tested on the same population of adults with intellectual disabilities/developmental disabilities that had been receiving therapies over a three-year period, thus allowing for comparisons of progress on each assessment measure and across modalities over time. Case studies in each chapter make clear the longitudinal progress of participants as measured by the tools. Helpful, too, is the inclusion of operational definitions, scripts, checklists, scoring sheets, and statistical analyses, as well as detailed chapter appendices. The book is meant to advance the development of assessment tools by and for creative arts therapists in all modalities. It is meant to help students as well as professionals; therefore, a technical glossary is provided. The use of this text will aid greatly in integrating research into the culture of the creative arts therapies professions by providing a pragmatic model of the relationship between research and practice.

Product Description: Nearly 25 years ago, the American College of Physicians (ACP) established an exciting program called the Clinical Efficacy Assessment Project (CEAP). Its goals were threefold: to assemble and review the clinical literature on a specified topic; to identify the best scientific papers; and to analyze, reformulate, and present such information so that practitioners could readily determine the usefulness of diagnostic tests, procedures, and treatments...read more

Product Description: The only sure way out of the maze of conflicting recommendations is to take an evidence-based path. Screening for Diseases: Prevention in Primary Care provides the latest evidence on screening and prevention for nine commonly encountered diseases and conditions, including hypertension; type 2 diabetes; osteoporosis; cardiovascular events; depression; hormone replacement therapy; and breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer...read more

Product Description: Much good has been accomplished by the UN. But now the UN is establishing itself as a world government with decisions that are slowly but steadily eroding the individual freedoms guaranteed every U.S. citizen in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.