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Program Evaluation and Clinical Sociology

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Handbook of Clinical Sociology

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Chapters with straightforward titles such as this often start out with straightforward definitions of terms. I rarely find such definitions helpful. They are either common sense and therefore unnecessary or very technical and therefore counterintuitive.

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Bank, A. (1991). Program Evaluation and Clinical Sociology. In: Rebach, H.M., Bruhn, J.G. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Sociology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3782-3_5

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