Planning and Conducting Family Cluster: Education for Family Wellness

Authors Belle Ruth Witkin and James W. Altschuld introduce their three-phase model--preassessment, assessment, and postassessment-in an easily understandable and practical guide. The three-phase model is used to clarify the distinctions among the needs of primary service recipients and resources and the people who exist because of them. Appropriate methods used for gathering data for assessing needs and causal analysis are detailed by the three levels. From the presentation of the framework and the coverage of several techniques for analyzing data to the balanced description of quantitative and qualitative methodologies explored, multiple case studies and examples enable the successful conduct of needs assessments.Vance, Barbara is the author of 'Planning and Conducting Family Cluster: Education for Family Wellness', published 1989 under ISBN 9780803934832 and ISBN 0803934831.