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Carers Checklist
A free downloadable tool that can be used to assess the needs of people with people with dementia and their carers and to evaluate the outcomes of the service being delivered.  Carers were ...

Creating Confidence Handbook
A handbook for professionals working with children to explore the issue of building confidence, particularly in relation to the Curriculum for Excellence.  There is a critique of work in ...

Mental Health Improvement: Evidence and Practice - Guide 1: Evidence Based Practice
This is the first in a series of Evaluation Guides that aim to encourage, support and improve standards in the evaluation of mental health improvement initiatives. This guide aims to help ...

Mental Health Improvement: Evidence and Practice - Guide 2: Measuring Success
This guide aims to help develop indicators to gauge progress and assess the effectiveness of mental health improvement interventions. Covers the use of consultation to develop robust, valid and ...

Mental Health Improvement: Evidence and Practice - Guide 4: Making an Impact
This is the fourth in a series of Evaluation Guides, which aim to encourage, support and improve standards in the evaluation of mental health improvement initiatives. impact. This guide discusses ...

Mental health Improvement: evidence and practice Guide 5 Selecting scales to assess
This is the fifth in the series of evaluation guides and focuses on how to select a validated scale to assess aspects of mental well being.  In the guide approximately 50 scales are ...

Outcomes Star website
The Outcomes Star™ is a unique tool for supporting and measuring change when working with vulnerable people. It is widely used and is: Underpinned by an explicit model of change

Participatory Arts Evaluation Approach Project Report
This is the report from a piece of joint work between The Mental Health Foundation in Scotland, Artful and ESS.  The project supported six participatory arts organisations to pilot a self ...

The Confidence Research System
An on-line resource, that can be used to measure baseline and progress in relation to aspects of confidence in adults and children.  These are self-efficacy, optimism, resilience, mindset, ...