Evidence-Based Practice for the Helping Professions A Practical Guide with Integrated Multimedia (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

by Gibbs, Leonard E.

• ISBN13: 9780534539238
• ISBN10: 0534539238
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-15
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Practitioners in the helping professions make life-affecting judgements and decisions. This new integrated learning package seeks to improve practice reasoning through principles of logical thinking and evidence-based practice. EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE FOR THE HELPING PROFESSIONS gives students access to a robust companion Web site, linked to the best databases of use across all the helping professions. Also accompanying this book is a CD-ROM that contains three enactments of evidence-based practice: one of a hospital team, one of a courtroom testimony, and one of a school's individual education plan team meeting. Through viewing the videos on the CD-ROM and completing the interactive assignments, students will learn how to integrate practice and research.

Table of Contents

1. Evidence-Based Practice: Definition and What It Offers To You and Your Clients

2. Become Motivated To Apply the Current Best Evidence to Practice

3. Pose a Specific Question of Importance to Your Client's Welfare

4. Locate the Best External Evidence To Answer Your Question

5. Effectiveness Research: Evaluating Study Quality and Applying Results To Practice

6. Meta-Analyses: Evaluating Review Quality and Applying Findings To Practice

7. Assessment and Risk Studies: Evaluating Study Quality and Applying Results To Practice

8. Descriptive and Qualitative Studies: Evaluating Study Quality and Applying Results To Practice

9. Collecting Data In Practice

10. Teaching Others