เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Clinical Significance Analysis	Single-System Design
สาขาวิชา	Social Work	Social Work
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1991	2009
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Neil S. Jacobson & Paula Truax	Martin Bloom, Joel Fischer & John G. Orme (codification in social work)
ประเภท	Two-part classification of whether individual change is both reliable and meaningful	Time-series design for evaluating intervention with a single client system
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Jacobson, N. S., & Truax, P. (1991). Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 59(1), 12–19.	Bloom, M., Fischer, J., & Orme, J. G. (2009). Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional (6th ed.). Pearson/Allyn & Bacon. ISBN: 9780205458066
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Clinical Significance, Jacobson-Truax Method, Clinically Significant Change, Recovery Classification	Single-Subject Design, Single-Case Design, N-of-1 Design, Single-System Evaluation
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	4
สรุป	Clinical significance analysis is a method for deciding whether an individual client's change after treatment is not only statistically reliable but also meaningful in real-world terms — specifically, whether the client has moved out of the dysfunctional range and into the range typical of a functional or non-clinical population. Formalized by Neil Jacobson and Paula Truax in 1991, it combines a reliable-change criterion with a clinical cutoff to sort each client into categories such as recovered, improved, unchanged, or deteriorated, complementing group-level statistics that say nothing about individual benefit.	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.