Knowledge That Changes Social Work Practice

Research on Social Work Practice

Evaluation and Social Work Practice

This book is a collection of thirteen edited chapters from different contributors, each presenting their perspective on the nature of evaluation and research and their application to practice. The editors aim to provide a ‘comprehensive treatment of the central issues confronting evaluation in social work’, however, their claims that it is likely to appeal to students, researchers and practitio...

Professional Development That Changes Practice

The researchers conducted a national cross-sectional study and a follow-up longitudinal study to (a) identify the key features of effective professional development activities, (b) determine the prevalence of such activities, and (c) examine the extent to which such activities influence teachers’ classroom practice in mathematics and science. Both studies were conducted as part of an evaluation...

Work as Social Practice: Activities and Interdependancies

Examining work as social practice offers a means of understanding relations between behaviour and the social world; or the mind in activity. Recent views have proposed that cognition is distributed (Hutchins 1991, Resnick, et al 1997) or stretched (Lave 1991) across the social partners and artifacts that comprise the social practice in which they act. Therefore, more than proposing social pract...

Evidence-based practice and clinical social work.

The evidence-based practice (EBP) movement in mental health is beginning to influence the discipline of clinical social work (CSW). Given that clinical social workers are now the largest discipline (in terms of numbers of practitioners) providing mental health services in North America, to the extent that EBP can affect the daily services of these clinicians, the care of patients and their outc...