Sexual Abuse Assessment Training

Computer printouts are often difficult to read and are produced in such volume that social work administrators do not havae the time to analyze the data and derive meaning from them. Computers can be programmed to accomplish the analysis through a cross-tabulation algorithm that identifies the relationships among the various fields in the database and prints only the significant data. The report itself can be programmed for readability by use of a narrative form instead of tables and by limiting the main report to the highlights that need attention. Such programming techniques make reports meaningful and usable.