Social work and evidence-based practice / edited by David Bromfield Smith.

Evidence-based practice - what it might mean, how it can be achieved, whether it should be aspired to - is the subject of much debate and argument in social work. Covering areas of social work practice that are well established and those in which evidence is just beginning to become available, the a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Smith, David, 1947 August 2-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Palo Alto, Calif. : Ebrary, [2005?]
Edition:1st American pbk. ed.
Series:Research highlights in social work ; 45.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS IN SOCIAL WORK 45 Social Work and Evidence-Based Practice; Contents; 1 Introduction: Some Versions of Evidence-Based Practice; 2 What Professionals Need from Research Beyond: Evidence-Based Practice; 3 The Extremes of Child Abuse: A Macro Approach to Measuring Effective Prevention; 4 Effective Social Work: A Micro Approach
  • Reducing Truancy, Delinquency and School Exclusions; 5 Domestic Violence: Evidence-Led Policy
  • Ignorance-Led Practice?; 6 Evidence-Based Practice in Young People's Substance Misuse Services; 7 Social Work and Looked-After Children.