Journal Article Critique Paper

BSHS 435
January 15 2016

Literature Review
In this article critique paper as a team we are researching what the effects are that a behavioral specialist has on the behavioral control for the mentally disabled. While not all clients have improvement, with evaluation in methodology in mental illness, the causes of the positive or negative program outcomes become the primary focus of study. Behavioral specialist teach their clients the skills that they need to improve on their personal social skills. Unlike other research methodologies, evaluation research is usually initiated by someone's need for a decision to be made about policy, program management, or strategic planning. It is important to understand the effects that a behavioral specialist has on the mentally disabled.
With evaluation in methodology in mental illness, the causes of the positive or negative program outcomes become the primary focus of study. Using program goals and actual individual and group performance measures in meeting these objectives, evaluation researchers attempt to locate factors related to the actual program outcomes. Traditionally, an evaluator will work directly with program leadership, staff, and consumers to determine the most salient factors that define program performance concerning the goals of a program.
In ideal evaluation study situations, mental health service program staff, directors, funding sources, and all other groups that have a stake in the investigation are invited into the variable identification phase to identify the critical program variables to be used in the study. Methods of data collection and subsequent data analysis techniques will be used to determine program efficacy levels. Thus, the results of an evaluation research study can be used to modify program operations to increase performance toward meeting those