Serving Highly Vulnerable Families in Home-Visitation Programs
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Understanding evaluations of home visitation programs.
This journal issue comprises reports concerning program evaluations of key national home visitation models. No single evaluation can answer all the questions of interest about a program, nor is any evaluation perfect, which means that readers must carefully weigh the intended purpose of the evaluation and the evaluation's strengths and weaknesses before deciding what conclusions can credibly be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infant Mental Health Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0163-9641
DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21399