Is Graduate Social Work Education Promoting a Critical Approach to Mental Health Practice?
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Council on Social Work Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 383 HISTORICALLY, the field of social work has been committed to work toward a “just society” (Reamer, 1993). This means that social work has often rejected mainstream institutional views and has offered or supported alternative viewpoints furthering its goal of a just society. In addition, evidence-based practice suggests that professional decision making should rest on the evaluation of well-tested empirical evidence, not prevailing dogma IS GRADUATE SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION PROMOTING A CRITICAL APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE?
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