Making Social Work Practice More Scientific
Volume 1. The Profession of Social Work
Allen Rubin,
Allen Rubin
University of Texas—Austin, School of Social Work, Austin, Texas, US
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Allen Rubin
University of Texas—Austin, School of Social Work, Austin, Texas, US
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This chapter examines the challenge of making social work practice more scientific. Throughout the social work profession's history, there has been a gap between research and practice. Efforts to try to bridge that gap have had little success in the face of agency realities and epistemological battles. Recommendations are made for preventing the erosion of evidentiary standards and thus reducing the chances that EBP will become a meaningless shibboleth.
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