The Scholar-Practitioner Model

Question 1

History textbook

Answer 1

Dulmus, C. N. & Sowers, K. M. (2012). The profession of social work: Guided by history, led by evidence. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-118-24018-2

Question 2

EBP issue

Answer 2

Part of the difficulty that social workers deal with such a wide range of problems that it would be impossible to write a book or even a shelf of books on how to deal with them all, the sheer complexity of the problems.

Question 3

EBP

Answer 3

(A) evidence-based practice is about the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of the best evidence to be sure,

(B) but it is also about the use of clinical judgment

(C)and the integration of best evidence with client values and preferences

Question 4

Continued: EBP

Answer 4

EBP are not silver bullets (p.193)

Question 5

Continued: EBP

Answer 5

Evidence-based practice proceeds by converting the unknowns of a problem into one or more answerable questions that are capable of being pursued using electronic databases and search engines

Question 6

EBP obstacles

Answer 6

There are sometimes obstacles with EBP,.. which can involve issues with time, effort, and resources

Question 7

Continued: EBP obstacles

Answer 7

another kind of obstacle that must be overcome for EBD practice to succeed is attitudinal and this problem extends to both the funders and the providers of social work services.

Question 8

ChP 9: scientific base and SW

Answer 8

Empirically oriented leaders in SW education recommend various strategies to bridge the gap between research and practice in SW curriculum (Kirk & Reid, 2002)

Question 9

emiprical clinical practice

Answer 9

There was a call for practitioners to base their selection of interventions on review on experimental an quasi-experimental research studies to ascertain what interventions appeared most likely to be effective for heir particular client in light of credible scientific evidence.

Question 10

Inappropriate conflation of postmodernism with qualitative

Answer 10

During the same error that radical, relativistic postmodernist, began attacking the promotion of positivistic calls for a better controlled outcome, evaluations of practice effectiveness, other voices emerge to remind the profession that quantitative inquiry is not the only way to make social work scientific.

Question 11

Educational strategies

Answer 11

Educational strategies are beginning to be employed to increase the extent to which students, agency practitioners, and faculty colleagues are better informed about the EBP process and the appropriate use of evidentiary standards in appraising outcome studies.

Question 12

Professional publications

Answer 12

In addition to educating students, practitioners, and scholars about EBP strategies, also could be directed at our professional publications -to improve the ways in which inferences and implications are drawn from weekly controlled studies

Question 13

CHP * Continued

What EBP is?

Answer 13

EBP involves the following 5 steps:

1. Convert your practice problem into an answerable question.
2. Locate the best available evidence with which to answer that question.
3. Together with your client, critically appraise the evidence.
4. Use your clinical judgment and your client’s preferences to apply that evidence to the present circumstances.
5. Evaluate the performance of your intervention according to the objective you and your client had set out.

Question 14

What EBP is?

Answer 14

Evidence- based practice proceeds by converting the unknowns of a problems into one or more answerable questions that are capable of being pursued using electronic databases and search engines