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MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK GUIDE
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
PICO (Translating the Question into Searchable Parts)
Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analyses
Environment + organizational context. EBP. "Evidence-based Social Work Practice." 2012.
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a process in which the practitioner combines well-researched interventions with clinical experience and ethics, and client preferences and culture to guide and inform the delivery of treatments and services. The practitioner, researcher and client must work together in order to identify what works, for whom and under what conditions. This approach ensures that the treatments and services, when used as intended, will have the most effective outcomes as demonstrated by the research. (Social Work Policy Institute)
PICO (Translating the Question into Searchable Parts)
Typically used in evidence-based medicine, the PICO model is a useful way of formulating client, community, or policy-related research questions. A well-built question or problem should include the four components of the model: Problem, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome.
See below for a client-problem research question example:
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Problem |
Describe the client/patient. Important descriptors might include: age and gender. Then describe the problem the patient is experiencing. For example, you might say, "A four-year-old boy with PTSD" |
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Intervention |
Describe the intervention or treatment you are considering for the client/patient. For example, "EMDR psychotherapy" for the child. |
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Comparison |
Ask yourself if there is a main alternative intervention that exists for the problem that you wish to use as a base of comparison. Example: "cognitive-behavioral therapy." (Note: you may not always wish to compare interventions, so sometimes this part of your research question will be omitted.) |
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Outcome |
Ask yourself what result you want to see because of the therapy. Example: "decreased PTSD symptoms, such as nightmares" |
Evidence-Based Practice and Intellectual Disabilities by ISBN: 9781118321195Publication Date: 2014-04-14
Foundations of Evidence-Based Social Work Practice by ISBN: 9780195305944Publication Date: 2006-02-02
Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families by ISBN: 9781118420911Publication Date: 2012-12-27
You can search any database for articles with content related to evidence-based practice.
Enter your search terms in separate search boxes and enter evidence-based in one of the search boxes.
- CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Why search here?
CINAHL Complete is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association.
What's included?
This resource includes full text for hundreds of journals and books/monographs as well as indexing for more than 5,000 journals and the full text of more than 130 Evidence-Based Care Sheets. - APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowWhy search here?
PsycINFO is a comprehensive international database of psychology covering over 1,900 leading psychological, psychiatric, and related publications.
What's included?
PsycINFO covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. - PubMed This link opens in a new windowWhy search here?
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books.
What's included?
Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites. Also included are links to full-text articles available through the Simmons Library. Look for the Find Full-Text button on the upper right side of the screen to see if Simmons has it. - TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) Medical Database This link opens in a new windowSimultaneously searches evidence-based sources of systematic reviews, practice guidelines, and critically-appraised topics and articles -- including most of those listed above and many more. Also searches MEDLINE’s Clinical Queries, medical image databases, e-textbooks, and patient information leaflets.
Below you will find some online resources with evidence-based practice.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
NGC is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC)
The CEBC provides child welfare professionals with easy access to vital information about selected child welfare related programs. Each program is reviewed and rated utilizing the CEBC Scientific Rating scale to determine the level of evidence for the program. The programs are also rated on a Relevance to Child Welfare Rating Scale.
The Campbell Collaboration: Systematic Reviews
The Campbell Library of Systematic Reviews provides access to systematic reviews in the areas of education, criminal justice, and social welfare. The library is a peer-reviewed source of reliable evidence of the effects of interventions.
The Community Guide (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) filters scientific literature on specific health problems. The Task Force on Community Preventive Services makes recommendations for the use of various interventions based on the evidence gathered in the rigorous and systematic scientific reviews of published studies.
National Cancer Institute: Research-Tested Intervention Programs
This website offers research-tested intervention programs and products, review summaries and usefulness/integrity scores for each program, materials to adapt for use in your own program.
Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center (SAMHSA)
The SAMHSA Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center aims to provide communities, clinicians, policy makers, and others in the field with the information and tools they need to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings. The Resource Center contains a collection of science-based resources and is part of SAMHSA’s new comprehensive approach to identify and disseminate clinically sound and scientifically based policy, practices, and programs.
Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents: Research-Based Drug Abuse Prevention Programs
The National Institute of Drug Abuse presents examples of research-based programs featuring a variety of strategies proven to be effective. Each program was developed as part of a research study, which demonstrated that over time youth who participated in the programs had better outcomes than those who did not.
Social Programs That Work, sponsored by the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, provides findings from randomized controlled trials that, in their view, have important policy implications due to the effectiveness of social interventions studied.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center Resources and Programs
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center Resources and Programs is an easy to search page for suicide prevention resources (articles, tools, fact sheets, reports, etc) and programs and practices (education, screening, treatment, environmental change, etc.).
Published Tests
Published tests are standardized tests available for purchase. Often, these tests must be purchased in quantity, and the producer may not want the test available to the general public or for copying. If you need more information about a published test, try a search in Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests.
Unpublished Tests
Unpublished tests are generally not for sale but instead are often available in full-text in an article, thesis, dissertation, or book.
Getting Permission to Use a Test
To administer a test you have found:
- Contact the current copyright holder for permission to use the test.
- Contact information for the author or publisher is usually included within the test's profile.
- If the address of the author or publisher is not included in the profile, try searching in Google or another search engine.
- If you have found a test created by an author of a journal article, the article will include the contact information for the author.
- APA PsycTests (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowA research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowWhy search here?
Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, this database provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments.
What's included?
All Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. - CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
CINAHL Complete is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association.
What's included?
This resource includes full text for hundreds of journals and books/monographs as well as indexing for more than 5,000 journals and the full text of more than 130 Evidence-Based Care Sheets. - APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowWhy search here?
PsycINFO is a comprehensive international database of psychology covering over 1,900 leading psychological, psychiatric, and related publications.
What's included?
PsycINFO covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages.
Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology by ISBN: 9780761923060Publication Date: 2003-07-23
