Category: Appraising Change: The Book

6.99 Epilogue: Assessing Client Performance

This chapter helps you use Therapy-Science’s iGraph™ to graph, visualize, and analyze your client’s performance for evidence of improvement over the course of therapy.

The first three sections in Chapter 6 focus on the fundamentals of single-case graphs including its graphical components and measurement basics (level, trend, variability/stability). The next four sections introduce single-case design concepts and provide different strategies to help you visualize and analyze client performance across different clinical scenarios.

7.0 Analyzing Your Data Using Therapy-Science: Introduction

You are now at the point in this text to be able inspect the data that you have collected for evidence of positive clinical change. How do you know that your client is improving? What does it look like? This chapter addresses the visual- quantitative analysis of data collected within a single-case framework.

7.1 Analyzing Your Data Through Visual Means

The following set of procedures for doing of single-case performance data is based, in part, on the recent work of David Gast and colleagues (Gast & Ledford, 2014; Lane & Gast, 2014). In visual analysis it is important to first describe and analyze level data, in terms of ,

7.2 Analyzing Your Data Through Visual-Quantitative Means

Traditionally, practitioners of single-case data design have used visual means to describe and analyze the level, trend and stability of their client’s behavior within and between adjacent phases (Parsonson & Baer, 1986). In recent years, visual analysis has been augmented by increasingly powerful statistical techniques and computer-based visualization methods (like Therapy-Science!).

7.3 Data points and Decisions: What to do Next?

Throughout this book, I’ve provided you with a set of tools for using the information that you obtain from your practice to guide you as you go about making decisions about your client: their current status and where to go next. However, it’s one thing to be given a set of tools and another to use them effectively.

7.99 Epilogue: Analyzing Your Data Using Therapy-Science

Give a boy a hammer and everything he meets has to be pounded. Abraham Kaplan (in Horowitz, 1962)

You now have most of the tools that you need to structure and analyze any intervention for your client. You have a vocabulary for describing the level, trend, and variability within and between phases in a single-case design,