Evidence-Based Practices for Social Workers: An Interdisciplinary Approach - Softcover

O'hare, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0925065684 ISBN 13: 9780925065681

Publisher: Lyceum Books, 2005

Synopsis

Amid the growing demand for ethical, legal, and fiscal accountability in psychosocial practices, Evidence-Based Practices for Social Workers: An Interdisciplinary Approach provides a coherent, comprehensive, and useful resource for social workers and other human service professionals to help them

(1) conduct clinical assessments informed by current human behavior science;

(2) implement interventions supported by current outcome research; and,

(3) engage in evaluation as part of daily practice to ensure effective implementation of evidence-based practices.

Instead of depicting evidence-based practices as a simple matching of diagnostic categories with intervention methods, the text encourages critical thinking and flexibility guided by the best evidence in order to tailor practices to individual client needs. The multidimensional and functional approach to assessment is designed to integrate the use of human behavior knowledge with an analysis of each client's unique experiences.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas O'Hare is an associate professor at Boston College. He has an MSW and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He has also worked as a clinical social worker and served as director of quality assurance for the South Shore Mental Health Center in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He has written or contributed to many articles, most of which focus on co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in young adults and persons with serious mental illnesses. He is a long-time advocate of evidence-based social work practices.

Review:

Evidence-Based Practices for Social Workers is highly accurate, extremely well documented, informative, and clearly illustrates the amount interventions are documented by research. This book shines a light on the next wave of practice methods, and therefore should be required reading for every social work practice and policy student. --Edward Taylor, University of Minnesota

About this edition

• Publisher: Lyceum Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0925065684
• ISBN 13: 9780925065681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 679