Evidence-based practice in the social services: Implications for organizational change

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 239-269

  Johnson, Michelle ^a   Austin, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based practice; Organizational change; Social services

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749134804     PISSN: 15433714     EISSN: 15433722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J394v05n01_09     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Barratt, M. (2003) Organizational support for evidence-based practice within child and family social work: A collaborative study. Child and Family Social Work, 8, pp. 143-150.
2. Bartels, S. J., Dums, A. R., Oxman, T. E., Schneider, L. S., Arean, P. A. Alexopoulos, G. S. et al. (2002) Evidence-based practices in geriatric mental health care. Psychiatric Services, 53:11, pp. 1419-1431.
3. Bero, L. and Rennie, D. (1995) The Cochrane Collaboration. Preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care. Journal of the American Medical Association, 274:24, pp. 1935-1938.
4. Bero, L. et al. (1998) Getting research findings into practice: An overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings. British Medical Journal, 317, pp. 465-468.
5. Bunyan, L. E. and Lutz, E. M. (1991) Marketing the hospital library to nurses. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 79:2, pp. 223-225.
6. Caliber Associates (2003) Emerging practice in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
7. Center for Evidence-based Social Services (2004) Becoming an evidence-based organization: Applying, adapting, and acting on evidence-Module 4. The Evidence Guide: Using research and evaluation in social care and allied professions, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
8. Davies, H. and Nutley, S. (2002) Evidence-based policy and practice: Moving from rhetoric to reality, Discussion Paper 2, St Andrews University, Scotland
9. Chalmers, I., Sackett, D. and Silagy, C. (1997) The Cochrane collaboration. Non-random reflections on health services research: On the 25th anniversary of Archie Cochrane's effectiveness and efficiency, pp. 231-249. BMJ, London
10. Gambrill, E. (1999) Evidence-based practice: An alternative to authority-based practice. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 80:4, p. 341.
11. Gibbs, L. E. (2003) Evidence-based practice for the helping professions: A practical guide with integrated multimedia, Brooks Cole, Pacific Grove, CA
12. Gira, E. C., Kessler, M. L. and Poertner, J. (2004) Influencing social workers to use research evidence in practice: Lessons from medicine and the allied health professions. Research on Social Work Practice, 14:2, pp. 68-79.
13. Greenhalgh, T. (2001) How to read a paper: The basics of evidence based medicine. BMJ Books, London
14. Guyatt, G. H., Sackett, D. L., Sinclair, J. C., Hayward, R., Cook, D. J. and Cook, R. J. (1995) Users' guides to the medical literature. IX. A method for grading health care recommendations. Journal of the American Medical Association, 174, pp. 1800-1804.
15. Hampshire Social Services (1999) Evidence-based practice in Hampshire Social Services: Notes on our strategy, Hampshire Social Services, Hampshire, UK
16. Hoagwood, K., Burns, B. J., Kiser, L., Ringeisen, H. and Schoenwald, S. K. (2001) Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health services. Psychiatric Services, 52:9, pp. 1179-1189.
17. Hodson, R. (2003) Leading the drive for evidence based practice in services for children and families: Summary report of a study conducted for research in practice
18. Kirk, S. A. and Penska, C. E. (1992) Research utilization in MSW education: A decade of progress?. Research utilization in the social services: Innovations for practice and administration, Haworth, New York
19. Kitson, A., Harvey, G. and McCormack, B. (1998) Enabling the implementation of evidence-based practice: A conceptual framework. Quality in Health Care, 7, pp. 149-158.
20. Oxman, A. D. and Guyatt, G. H. (1995) The science of reviewing research. Doing more good than harm: The evaluation of health care interventions, New York Academy of Sciences, New York
21. Pawson, R., Boaz, A., Grayson, L., Long, A. and Barnes, C. (2003) Types and quality of knowledge in social care, Social Care Institute for Excellence, London, UK
22. Poertner, J. (2000) Parents' expectations of caseworkers: Research integration practice guide, Children and Family Research Center, Urbana, IL
23. Rosenheck, R. A. (2001) Organizational process: A missing link between research and practice. Psychiatric Services, 52:12, pp. 1607-1612.
24. Sackett, D. L., Straus, S. E., Richardson, W. S., Rosenberg, W. and Haynes, R. B. (1997) Evidence-based medicine: How to practice and teach EBM, Churchill-Livingstone, Edinburgh
25. (2003) Child Physical and Sexual Abuse: Guidelines for Treatment (Final Report: January 15, 2003), National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, Charleston, SC
26. Schoenwald, S. K. and Hoagwood, K. (2001) Effectiveness, transportability, and dissemination of interventions: What matters when?. Psychiatric Services, 52:9, pp. 1190-1197.
27. Sheldon, B. and Chilvers, R. (2000) Evidence-based social care: A study of prospects and problems, Russell House Publishing, Lyme Regis
28. United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), Children's Bureau (2000) Child and Family Services Review Procedures Manual, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC