ACCESSING INFORMATION ABOUT EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES

ACCESSING INFORMATION ABOUT EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES

Wk1 Assign-draft

As a student, you have learned to look to the professional and scholarly literature to better understand concepts, support your analyses, and apply reputable, research-based evidence to a problem. The same is true of practicing social workers. Although they may already have a theoretical orientation and a set of interventions with which they are familiar, current research allows them to remain abreast of new developments and evidence-based practices and interventions that might work for a particular client, family, or group. 

In this Assignment, you assume the role of a social worker assessing a client. In order to best treat that client, you must survey the research literature and analyze potential evidence-based interventions for treatment.

TO PREPARE

• Access the Social Work Case Studies media and navigate to Tiffani, Jake, and Paula. Choose one on which to focus your Assignment.

• As you reflect on your chosen case, identify two issues that you would want to address as the social worker.

• Research in the Walden Library for evidence-based practices that could be used to treat each issue. Ensure that you are searching for peer-reviewed scholarly research articles describing these practices.

BY DAY 7

Submit a 2- to 3-page paper in which you approach your chosen case as a social worker: 

• Describe two issues in your chosen case that would be important for intervention.

• Identify one evidence-based intervention for each issue (from peer-reviewed journals). How do you know these interventions are “evidence-based”? Refer to the main characteristics of evidence-based practice (EBP) in your explanation.

• Summarize the main information about the interventions from each journal article—research design, sample, sample size, and findings/outcomes in a 1-paragraph annotation.

• Evaluate the interventions and their suitability to the case.

Use the Learning Resources and peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles to support your paper. Make sure to include appropriate APA citations and a reference list.

References 

• Faulkner, M., & Parrish, D. (n.d.). Evidence-based practice is a processLinks to an external site.. Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing. https://txicfw.socialwork.utexas.edu/evidence-based-practice-is-a-process/ 

• Grady, M. D., Wike, T., Putzu, C., Field, S., Hill, J., Bledsoe, S. E., Bellamy, J., & Massey, M. (2018). Recent social work practitioners’ understanding and use of evidence-based practice and empirically supported treatmentsLinks to an external site.. Journal of Social Work Education, 54(1), 163–179. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2017.1299063

• Walden University Library. (n.d.). Verify peer reviewLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/verifypeerreview 

Media

• Walden University, LLC. (2021). Evidence-based practice in social work [Video]. Walden University Blackboard. https://waldenu.instructure.com

Time Estimate: 2 minutes

• Walden University, LLC. (2022). Social work case studiesLinks to an external site. [Interactive media]. https://waldenu.instructure.com

o Navigate to Tiffani, Jake, and Paula. Choose one on which to focus your Assignment.