Developing Practice Guidelines for Social Work Intervention

by Rosen, Aaron

• ISBN13: 9780231123112
• ISBN10: 0231123116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

This book bridges the gap between social work knowledge and empirically based practice. Although there is a significant need for the use of empirically tested and verified knowledge in social work practice, the empirical basis of support is nearly absent from practitioners'considerations as they make clinical decisions in routine practice. The authors advocate the development of readily available, accessible, and professionally sanctioned practice guidelines for use by practitioners, a necessity in the age of managed care and demands for greater accountability, effectiveness, and efficiency in practice. This book features a much-needed discussion of racial and ethnic differentials in relation to practice guidelines and on the relationship between practice guidelines and different aspects of service delivery.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Practice Guidelines and the Challenge of Effective Practice	1	(16)
Aaron Rosen
Enola K. Proctor
PART I Precursors of Guidelines: Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Intervention Research in Social Work: A Basis for Evidence-Based Practice and Practice Guidelines	17	(20)
Mark W. Fraser
Evidence-Based Practice: Implications for Knowledge Development and Use in Social Work	37	(22)
Eileen Gambrill
Empirical Foundations for Practice Guidelines in Current Social Work Knowledge	59	(24)
William J. Reid
Anne E. Fortune
PART II Practice Guidelines for Social Work: Need, Nature, and Challenges
Clinical Guidelines and Evidence-Based Practice in Medicine, Psychology, and Allied Professions	83	(25)
Matthew Owen Howard
Jeffrey M. Jenson
The Structure and Function of Social Work Practice Guidelines	108	(20)
Enola K. Proctor
Aaron Rosen
Social Work Should Help Develop Interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines, Not Discipline-Specific Ones	128	(12)
Bruce A. Thyer
The Role of Diagnostic and Problem Classification in Formulating Target-Based Practice Guidelines	140	(16)
Stuart A. Kirk
Constructing Practice: Diagnoses, Problems, Targets, or Transactions?	156	(13)
Mark A. Mattaini
PART III Responsiveness of Practice Guidelines to Diversity in Client Populations and Practice Settings: The Idiographic Application of Normative Generalizations
Accounting for Variability in Client, Populations, and Setting Characteristics: Moderators of Intervention Effectiveness	169	(24)
Lynn Videka
Service-Delivery Factors in the Development of Practice Guidelines	193	(14)
Luis H. Zayas
Performance Standards and Quality Control: Application of Practice Guidelines to Service Delivery	207	(16)
Wilma Peebles-Wilkins
Maryann Amodeo
PART IV Practitioner, Organizational, and Institutional Factors in the Utilization of Practice Guidelines
Practitioner Adoption and Implementation of Practice Guidelines and Issues of Quality Control	223	(13)
Edward J. Mullen
William F. Bacon
Organizational and Institutional Factors in the Development of Practice Knowledge and Practice Guidelines in Social Work	236	(17)
Jeanne C. Marsh
Social Work Practice Guidelines in an Interprofessional World: Honoring New Ties That Bind	253	(18)
Nina L. Aronoff
Darlyne Bailey
PART V Conclusion
Advancing the Development of Social Work Practice Guidelines: Directions for Research	271	(20)
Enola K. Proctor
Aaron Rosen
Index	291