TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface
-Acknowledgments
-Introduction: Outcome-Based Evaluation: Cross-National Perspectives
-Current Initiatives in the Development of Outcome-Based Evaluation of Children's Services
-The Black Box: Accounting for Program Inputs When Assessing Outcomes
-The Evaluation of "Community Building": Measuring the Social Effects of Community-Based Practice
-Outcome-Based Evaluation of National Health and Social Programs
-Nonexperimental Methods of Evaluating Social Programs: Applications for Child and Family Services
-An Intervention to Reduce Smoking Habits through Counseling from the General Practitioner
-Improving Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents: Strategies and Lessons
-Evaluating Social and Health Services with Children, Adults, and Elderly Persons
-Outcomes Are Dependent on Inputs: Does Risk Assessment Inform Service Delivery?
-A Learning-Organization Approach to Evaluation
-Outcome Studies in the Context of Organizational Inertia and Political Ideology
-Family Service Centers: Lessons From National and Local Evaluations
-Author Index
-Subject Index