Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice

✍ Scribed by Margaret Pack, Justin Cargill

Publisher: IGI Global
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 435
Series: Advances in Human Services and Public Health (AHSPH)
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Social workers play a crucial part in contemporary society by ensuring that individuals are able to address, overcome, and manage obstacles in their daily lives. In an effort to better serve their clients, many practitioners have turned to evidence-based practice.

Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice provides practitioners with the tools necessary to locate, analyze, and apply the latest empirical research findings in the field to their individual practice. This premier reference work provides insights and support to professionals and researchers working in the fields of social work, counseling, psychotherapy, case management, and psychology.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Book Series
Dedication
Quotes and Testimonials
Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers
Table of Contents
Detailed Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgment
Section 1: Framing the Search for Evidence
Chapter 1: Why Search for Evidence for Practice in Social Work?
Chapter 2: Finding the Evidence for Practice in Social Work
Chapter 3: Applying Evidence in Practice
Chapter 4: Navigating Practice-Informed Evidence and Evidence-Based Practice
Section 2: Social Work Fields of Practice
Chapter 5: Refugee Women
Chapter 6: More than Pills and Beds
Chapter 7: Child Protection, “Dirty Work,” and Interagency Collaboration
Chapter 8: Social Work and Youth Justice in a Global Context
Chapter 9: Social Work Practice Outcomes
Chapter 10: Picking up the Pieces
Chapter 11: A Social Work Approach in High-Tech Neurosurgery and Social Work Research Approaches in Health Care
Chapter 12: Recruiting and Engaging Men as Fathers in Social Work Practice
Chapter 13: Art Therapy
Section 3: Self-Care for Social Workers
Chapter 14: Towards an Evidence-Informed Approach to Clinical Social Work Supervision
Chapter 15: Best Practice in Responding to Critical Incidents and Potentially Traumatic Experience within an Organisational Setting
Chapter 16: Post-Qualifying Practice
Chapter 17: Conclusion
Compilation of References
About the Contributors
Index

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