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The Performance Diagnostic Checklist - Human Services (PDC-HS) is an assessment designed to assess the environmental variables contributing to employee performance concerns in human-service settings. Recent research has demonstrated that interventions indicated by the PDC-HS result in improved employee performance across several human-service settings and that the assessment has acceptable reliability and validity. Although PDC-HS-indicated interventions have been effective at increasing employee performance, there is a need for additional guidance when using the assessment given the limited nature of the original administration guidelines. Thus, the purpose of the current manuscript is to introduce additional guidance for use of the PDC-HS across a variety of situations.
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Brand, D., Sellers, T.P., Wilder, D.A. et al. The Performance Diagnostic Checklist - Human Services: Guidance for Assessment Administration. Behav Analysis Practice 15, 951–957 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-021-00675-4
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