Teaching evidence-based practice: Toward a new paradigm for social work education

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 234-259

  Howard, Matthew O ^a   McMillen, Curtis J ^a   Pollio, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirically based practice; Evidence based practice; Pedagogy; Professional education; Social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 21144444466     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731502250404     Document Type: Review

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