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The Family Assessment Form has been used as a program evaluation tool at Children’s Bureau and other child welfare and family service agencies for about 10 years. Changes between pre- and post-test scores on specific items and factors have been used as the primary indicator of success. The FAF software includes these types of reports.
Following the acceptance of the FAF as a clinical tool at Children’s Bureau, researchers began to assess its reliability and validity. The FAF was used as part of a rigorous study using an experimental design in Los Angeles (McCroskey & Meezan, 1997) and by other program evaluators and researchers (Amland, 1996; Meezan and O’Keefe, 1998; Edwards, 2001). The full documentation (Microsoft Word format document) gives a brief synopsis of knowledge to date about the reliability and validity of the FAF. It contains some technical information that may be of more interest to researchers than to practitioners. However, such information may be helpful to agency-based researchers who need to determine the potential research applications of the FAF in each individual agency setting. |
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