Evidence-based practice is now a core element of many
governments' approaches to policy-making and social intervention.
It has become a powerful movement that promises to change the
content and structure of social work and its allied professions.
Its emergence has generated much debate and raised challenging
questions, however, particularly at the interface of research,
policy, and practice.
This book provides a critical analysis of evidence-based
practice in social work. It introduces readers to the fast changing
research, policy, legislative, and practice context. It discusses
what constitutes knowledge in social work, the values and beliefs
that lie behind EBP and problems of implementation, formalisation
and resource management. Reflecting on the challenges of
transferring evidence-based practice to frontline social work
practice, the authors argue that social work practice is not easily
measured and systematised into best practice guidelines that
disseminate proven diagnostic and effective intervention
knowledge.
Using Actor Network Theory for the first time in the social work
literature, Evidence-based Social Work illuminates how adopting the
methodology and language of evidence-based practice fundamentally
alters the conditions under which social work takes place. This
book is vital reading for academics, practitioners, and students
with an interest in contemporary social work practice and
research.
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