Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Task Analysis (Social Work)	Single-System Design
Πεδίο	Social Work	Social Work
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1992	2009
Δημιουργός	William J. Reid & Laura Epstein (task-centered practice)	Martin Bloom, Joel Fischer & John G. Orme (codification in social work)
Τύπος	Qualitative procedure for decomposing a goal into sequenced, accomplishable tasks	Time-series design for evaluating intervention with a single client system
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Reid, W. J. (1992). Task Strategies: An Empirical Approach to Clinical Social Work. Columbia University Press. ISBN: 9780231076876	Bloom, M., Fischer, J., & Orme, J. G. (2009). Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional (6th ed.). Pearson/Allyn & Bacon. ISBN: 9780205458066
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Task-Centered Task Analysis, Task Implementation Sequence Analysis, Reid Task Analysis, Task Breakdown Analysis (Social Work)	Single-Subject Design, Single-Case Design, N-of-1 Design, Single-System Evaluation
Συναφείς	3	4
Σύνοψη	In task-centered social work, task analysis is the qualitative procedure of breaking a client's agreed-upon goal into a sequence of concrete, accomplishable tasks, then examining what helps and hinders the completion of each. Rooted in William Reid and Laura Epstein's task-centered model, it turns a large or vague problem into a chain of small, reviewable actions for the client and worker, and treats the success or failure of each task as data for refining the plan. It is both a planning device and an analytic lens on the change process.	A single-system design is a time-series approach to evaluating practice in which a single client system — an individual, family, group, or organization — is measured repeatedly on a clearly defined target before and during (and sometimes after) an intervention. By tracking the same system over time rather than comparing a treatment group to a control group, it lets a practitioner judge whether their own intervention is associated with change in the people they actually serve. It is the methodological backbone of the 'accountable professional' tradition codified by Bloom, Fischer, and Orme.