Apply leadership skills, decision making, and the use of technology to inform evidence-based research practice to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
Related Assignment Criterion:
1: Critique single-subject designs.
C4.SP.B: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and the use of technology to inform program evaluation to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2: Apply critical thinking in verbal and written communication through the use of leadership and technology.
Assignment Description
After reading Whitfield’s 1999 article, “Validating School Social Work,” you will answer a series of questions aimed at critiquing single subject designs.
Read Whitfield’s 1999 article, “Validating School Social Work: An Evaluation of a Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Reduce School Violence,” and answer the following questions in an APA-formatted document:
What was the purpose of this study?
What was the sample?
What dependent variables were studied? How were the dependent variables operationalized?
Why was a single-subject design used? What are the strengths of a single-subject design?
What were the key findings (the results of the data analysis)?
