In Evidence-Based Practice for Social Workers , Thomas O Hare strikes a pragmatic balance between flexibility and adherence to empirical guidelines in performing routine assessments, interventions, and evaluations. The purpose of this book is to address the need for a framework guided by the best ...
Social workers from one state chapter of the National Association of Social Workers were surveyed to assess their use of and attitudes toward the peer-reviewed literature and their engagement in evidence-based practice. Results reveal that, in general, the practitioners in this study did not read ...
social work with groupsclinical experienceclient’s perspectiveSocial workers often are reluctant to use evidence-based practice in group work. Part of this reluctance is because of the perceived rigidity of the process and its emphasis on research. However, social workers can rely on the four ...
Summary: This article reports on a large survey of Australian Social Workers regarding their attitudes to evidence-based practice (EBP) and thoughts on factors affecting its implementation in human service organisations. Findings: Findings from a national survey of Australian social workers found a ...
Evidence-based Practice and Decision Analysis in Social Work: An Implementation Model Summary: This article on evidence-based practice and decision analysis develops an implementation model for social work. Thus far no detailed attempt has b... Webb,S. - 《Journal of Social Work》 被引量: 71发...
This paper summarizes, from a cross-national perspective, some commonly used models of evidence-based practice and relates them to social work practice with children and families. We first identify concepts and dimensions central to an analysis of the outcomes of social work practice. We then prese...
Significant advances have been made in conceptualizing Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) for social work but there has been little discussion about an EBP perspective for group work. Demands of accountability, the values, and ethics of social group work, and the expanding and deepening evidence base fo...
Background: In the Netherlands, social workers are now increasingly being urged by policymakers to engage in EBP (Evidence-based Practice). However, we found that Dutch social workers have a relatively low acceptance of and engagement in the EBP process (Van der Zwet, Beneken genaamd Kolmer, ...
The debate over evidence-based practice (EBP) in social work has largely been confined to clinical social work. The application of the idea to macro social work has been more muted. This paper discusses the history of EBP, the elements of macro social work; the arguments against and for evi...
This book offers school social work students and veteran practitioners a new framework for choosing their interventions, based on the best available evidence. It synthesizes the evidence-based practice (EBP) process with recent conceptual frameworks of school social work clinical practice offered by lea...