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Preparing Current and Future Practitioners to Integrate Research in Real Practice Settings
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Thyer, Bruce A. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Past efforts aimed at promoting a better integration between research and practice are reviewed. These include the empirical clinical practice movement (ECP), originating within social work; the empirically supported treatment (EST) initiative of clinical psychology; and the evidence-based practice (EBP) model developed within medicine. The…
Descriptors: Social Work, Theory Practice Relationship, Praxis, Models
Building a Bridge or Digging a Pipeline? Clinical Data Mining in Evidence-Informed Knowledge Building
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Epstein, Irwin – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Challenging the "bridge metaphor" theme of this conference, this article contends that current practice-research integration strategies are more like research-to-practice "pipelines." The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the potential of clinical data-mining studies conducted by practitioners, practitioner-oriented PhD…
Descriptors: Evidence, Social Science Research, Social Work, Theory Practice Relationship
CHOICES: An Empirically Supported Intervention for Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy in Community Settings
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Johnson, Shannon K.; Velasquez, Mary M.; von Sternberg, Kirk – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Examples of behavioral interventions that are efficacious in the research setting as well as practical and translatable to the "real-world" are critically needed as models for social work researchers and clinicians. This article presents the Changing High-Risk Alcohol Use and Improving Contraception Effectiveness Study (CHOICES)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Alcohol Abuse, Prenatal Influences, Prevention