[6] Single- System Design

2008 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Single System

Single-System Design: An Effective Strategy for Evaluating Clinical Change

2000 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 283-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjali S Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
System Design ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Single System ◽  
System Research ◽  
Integrative Therapy ◽  
Single Subject Research

Documentation and research are two essential factors for the growth of any profession and, therefore, have priority in occupational therapy. Documentation is the key to the communication of the clinical services rendered by the occupational therapist to clients and to other members of the professional team (Gillette 1982, Ottenbacher and York 1984). Single-system research, sometimes referred to as single-subject research, is a quantitative research method. In single-system research, the efficacy of a certain intervention can be evaluated in a systematic way by studying one subject in a single setting (Ottenbacher 1984). A therapist can make use of any therapeutic technique to work in a single-system design. Gillette (1982, p499) stated: ‘Each occupational therapy clinic is a virtually untouched laboratory, a storehouse of evidence that, properly recorded, analysed and published, would serve to confirm the value of occupational therapy as a health care service.’ This article describes the application of single-system design in a clinical setting. The client discussed was treated using sensory integrative therapy. The purpose of this article is to show how a selected behaviour can be recorded and measured effectively using a single-system design.

MSW Student Satisfaction With Using Single-System-Design Computer Software to Evaluate Social Work Practice

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlene Conboy ◽  
Charles Auerbach ◽  
Aaron Beckerman ◽  
David Schnall ◽  
Heidi Heft LaPorte
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
System Design ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Single System

Objective: A computer program for social work practice research was created and then tested. This program was designed specifically for computer tasks of data entry, data analysis, and graphic presentations of single-system-design research in social work practice. Method: An evaluation of this program was conducted with 136 students at one master's of social work (MSW) program in the spring of 1996. Results: More than 95% of the students surveyed found the program added a valuable component to research, and 81.9% reported the program helpful in evaluating practice. Conclusions: Computer software programs that are research design specific may encourage more social workers to do practice evaluation studies, but further development and testing of these types of specialized programs is called for.

Ethics and the Single-System Design

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 161-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bloom ◽  
John Orme
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Single System
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