The Future of Evidence in Evidence-based Practice: Who Will Answer the Call for Clinical Relevance?

Journal of Social Work

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-115

  Magill, Molly ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical social work practice; empirically supported treatment; epistemology; evaluation research; evidence based practice knowledge use

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249149169     PISSN: 14680173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468017306066737     Document Type: Article

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