Family Support: Linking Project Evaluation to Policy Analysis (Evaluative Research in Social Work S.) - Hardcover

Pinkerton, John; Higgins, Kathryn; Devine, Paula

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840148454 ISBN 13: 9781840148459

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000

Synopsis

An exploration of the link between individualized project evaluation and policy analysis. The conceptual and legislative frameworks which contextualize family support are explored and, by drawing on existing literature, the book aims to provide a one-volume guide to and discussion of key developments within family support, in the UK and internationally, as well as within Northern Ireland, where the research is set. Five family support settings are selected for close examination by the research and the key evaluation questions applied. The book details the methodology employed, and explores exactly how the settings were organized for family support. Additionally, the book seeks to identify needs in the context of family support across the range of settings by examining indicators of potential need. Services appropriate to family support were also analyzed across the range of settings. Finally, the book reviews the settings against criteria for the evaluation and development of projects considered to be family support.

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Product Description

The present selection of refereed papers is dedicated to Moshe Livsic on the occasion of his 80th anniversary. It covers many areas of operator theory and its applications, reflecting the breadth and the profound impact of his work. In particular, some of his most recent ideas on 2D-systems are presented. Other contributions cover important avenues of modern operator theory in such fields as interpolation theory (also in the so-called nonstationary setting), direct and inverse problems for the string equation and for non-self-adjoint differential operators, operator models and function theory. The volume should appeal to a wide audience of pure and applied mathematicians, electrical engineers and theoretical physicists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840148454
• ISBN 13: 9781840148459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 182