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Evaluation Tools

These tools were developed at Judge Baker with support from a federal grant from Child Mental Health Services of the Department of Health and Human Services. They were designed to support program managers in the field who evaluate their program efforts.

Click here to order our evaluation tools.

Evaluating the Outcome of Children’s Mental Health Services: A Guide for the Use of Available Child and Family Outcome Measures, Volume II, 1997

Theodore P. Cross, PhD & Elizabeth McDonald, MSW, Brandeis University
$35.00

Guidance for the use of standardized outcome measures for evaluation. Describes necessary steps prior to selecting outcome measures; provides brief reviews of 35 different standardized child and family outcome measures; includes information about psychometric properties, validity and reliability.

Measuring How We Care: Assessing Children’s Mental Health Services, Programs, and Systems

Theodore P. Cross, PhD, Brandeis University
$20.00

A guide for the use of system measures. Includes descriptions of the needs for such measures and the important system factors. A process for selection is included with reviews of 15 existing measures.

A Practical Guide for the Assessment of Cultural Competence in Children’s Mental Health Organizations

Monica Roizner, Ed.D., Technical Assistance Center, Judge Baker Children's Center
$15.00

A guide to planning and implementing cultural competence assessments, with brief reviews of 14 assessment tools, resources for post-assessment cultural competence, and contact information. Useful to agency and program administrators, providers, and human resource personnel, cultural competence trainers, and family members.

A Guide for Evaluating Consumer Satisfaction with Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services

Joanne Nicholson, PhD, University of Massachusetts
Gail Robinson, PhD, Policy Resource Center
$15.00

Designed for both state agencies and local organizations, this guide shows how to develop a plan to measure consumer satisfaction; how to select, modify or create an instrument; and how to interpret and use the results. Reviews of a variety of existing instruments are included.

Selecting and Implementing a Children’s Mental Health Information System

Sigrid Hutcheson, PhD, Policy Resource Center
$15.00

A guide for selecting and implementing an information system. Provides instruction for project planning, defining system requirements, selecting software, negotiating with vendors and implementing the system selected.

A Practical Guide: Fund-Raising for Local Evaluations of Children's Mental Health Programs

Sigrid Hutcheson, PhD, Policy Resource Center & Jane Couch, Development Consultant
$15.00

A Practical Guide provides a systematic strategy for raising funds from local sources to develop evaluation capacity, including finding potential funding sources for evaluations and detailed steps for preparing a presentation. Worksheets and checklists are included.

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Books @ Amazon by Judge Baker Staff:
(A portion of the proceeds go to Judge Baker initiatives)

When a Parent is Depressed:
How to Protect Your Children from the Effects of Depression in the Family

William R. Beardslee

Out of the Darkened Room:
When a Parent is Depressed: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family

William R. Beardslee

Out of the Woods:
Tales of Resilient Teens

Stuart T. Hauser, Joseph P. Allen, and Eve Golden

Adolescents and their Families

Stuart T. Hauser

An Argument for Mind

Jerome Kagan

Young Mind In A Growing Brain

Jerome Kagan and Norbert Herschkowitz

The Long Shadow of Temperament

Jerome Kagan and Nancy Snidman

Surprise, Uncertainty, and Mental Structures

Jerome Kagan

Three Seductive Ideas

Jerome Kagan

Galen's Prophecy:
Temperament in Human Nature

Jerome Kagan

The Nature of the Child

Jerome Kagan

The Emergence of Morality in Young Children

Jerome Kagan and Sharon Lamb

Consuming Kids:
Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing & Advertising

Susan Linn

Come On, People
On the Path from Victims to Victors

Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint

Raising Black Children:
Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children

James P. Comer and Alvin F. Poussaint

Lay My Burden Down:
Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans

Alvin F. Poussaint

The Promotion of Social Awareness:
Powerful Lessons from the Partnership of Developmental Theory and Classroom Practice

Robert L. Selman

Making a Friend in Youth

Lynn Schultz and Robert Selman

Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents:
Evidence-Based Treatments and Case Examples

John R. Weisz

Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents

Alan E. Kazdin and John R. Weisz

Developmental Psychopathology:
Perspectives on Adjustment, Risk, and Disorder

Suniya S. Luthar, Jacob A. Burack, Dante Cicchetti and, John R. Weisz

Effects of Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
(Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry)

John R. Weisz and Bahr Weiss