Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466665637 ISBN 13: 9781466665637

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2014

Synopsis

Social workers play a crucial part in contemporary society by ensuring that individuals are able to address, overcome, and manage obstacles in their daily lives. In an effort to better serve their clients, many practitioners have turned to evidence-based practice.

Evidence Discovery and Assessment in Social Work Practice provides practitioners with the tools necessary to locate, analyze, and apply the latest empirical research findings in the field to their individual practice. This premier reference work provides insights and support to professionals and researchers working in the fields of social work, counseling, psychotherapy, case management, and psychology.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Pack is Associate Professor of Social Work and Deputy Head of School, Allied Health Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include trauma and stress, theories of clinician self-care, and social workers theories for practice. She has worked in a national sexual abuse trauma centre with survivors of sexual abuse trauma as specialist case manager. Her career has included practice as a mental health social worker, where she has developed new services and managed staff as a team leader. Originally from New Zealand, she coordinated a national post graduate programme at Victoria University of Wellington and led a team of social work academics at Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory. She now lives and works in Australia.

Justin Cargill, Subject Librarian, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Justin Cargill has served as a reference librarian at Victoria University of Wellington since 1989 and in 2000 became the subject librarian for the Universitys Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health. He works closely with staff and students providing teaching, learning, and research support. This includes research consultancy services and training in literature searching and research skills.

Review:

This book brings together an erudite panoply of excellent chapters from academia and practice that demonstrate the contest is worthy of the struggle. Whatever particular approach we each take to social work practice, or indeed to our understanding of it, it is most likely that we are all committed to ensuring the best possible outcomes for those we are working with, and it is this striving that is situated at the heart of the chapters of this book. The reach of the chapters, from the theoretical to practice with people who have experienced sexual abuse, mental health problems, the traumas associated with being a refugee through to working with spiritual needs offers much to contemporary social work that can be understood, adapted and applied in many countries. A welcome and ethical endeavor! --Professor Jonathan Parker, Bournemouth University, UK

This book is a ground breaking overview of the nature of evidence-based interventions and their application to social work practice. The editors have done an outstanding job in enlisting the expertise of top academics and practitioners from disparate fields. The book has a number of excellent general chapters on evidence-based practice, and also describes specific applications of this approach to different client groups. This publication will be of real interest to busy social workers and will prove invaluable when they are searching for effective and ethical interventions. --Professor Tony Ward, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

This innovative volume promises to advance discerning debates along with the strategic infusion of evidence based practices into social work. This is an inclusionary book as the many sources of evidence promoted include the perspectives of those served. Cutting edge chapters on practice with diverse populations along with a unique section on self-care for social workers makes this book a most valuable 21st century resource. --Professor Katharine Briar-Lawson, State University of New York, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1466665637
• ISBN 13: 9781466665637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Pack Margaret, Cargill Justin