4. Empirical Foundations for Practice Guidelines in Current Social Work Knowledge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Practice Guidelines and the Challenge of Effective Practice 1
5. PART I. Precursors of Guidelines: Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Practice
6. 2. Intervention Research in Social Work: A Basis for Evidence-Based Practice and Practice Guidelines 17
7. 3. Evidence-Based Practice: Implications for Knowledge Development and Use in Social Work 37
8. 4. Empirical Foundations for Practice Guidelines in Current Social Work Knowledge 59
9. PART II. Practice Guidelines for Social Work: Need, Nature, and Challenges
10. 5. Clinical Guidelines and Evidence-Based Practice in Medicine, Psychology, and Allied Professions 83
11. 6. The Structure and Function of Social Work Practice Guidelines 108
12. 7. Social Work Should Help Develop Interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines, Not Discipline-Specific Ones 128
13. 8. The Role of Diagnostic and Problem Classification in Formulating Target-Based Practice Guidelines 140
14. 9. Constructing Practice: Diagnoses, Problems, Targets, or Transactions? 156
15. PART III. Responsiveness of Practice Guidelines to Diversity in Client Populations and Practice Settings: The Idiographic Application of Normative Generalizations
16. 10. Accounting for Variability in Client, Population, and Setting Characteristics: Moderators of Intervention Effectiveness 169
17. 11. Service-Delivery Factors in the Development of Practice Guidelines 193
18. 12. Performance Standards and Quality Control: Application of Practice Guidelines to Service Delivery 207
19. PART IV. Practitioner, Organizational, and Institutional Factors in the Utilization of Practice Guidelines
20. 13. Practitioner Adoption and Implementation of Practice Guidelines and Issues of Quality Control 223
21. 14. Organizational and Institutional Factors in the Development of Practice Knowledge and Practice Guidelines in Social Work 236
22. 15. Social Work Practice Guidelines in an Interprofessional World: Honoring New Ties That Bind 253
23. PART V. Conclusion
24. 16. Advancing the Development of Social Work Practice Guidelines: Directions for Research 271
25. Index 291