Social work and evidence-based practice (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 authors address issues such as: What is to count as evidence, and who decides this?; If relevant evidence is agreed on, how should it be used in practice?; How can the thing that made the difference be identified?; Should success be measured as the result of the theory employed by the worker, or beca