Allen Rubin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4493805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Rubin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubin |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4096-291X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Commentary—Empathy for Jewish Students in the Aftermath of Israel’s Response to the Hamas Massacre
A Jewish student who graduated from a Master of Social Work program in 2024 recently told me about feeling unsafe in the classroom because of the way her classmates were expressing their feelings a
Social Justice Emphases on MSW Program Websites and in Their Curricula: A Mixed-Methods Study
This mixed methods study examined the extent of social justice emphases on master’s of social work (MSW) program websites. A triangulated content analysis of the websites of all Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)-accredited MSW programs was followed by semistructured telephone interviews with faculty members from programs with apparent discrepancies between their website emphasis on social justice and the extent to which social justice or re…
Combatting Racist Police Violence in a Politically Savvy Way
The Postmodern/Critical Perspective: Off-Ramp or Off the Rails
Benchmarks for Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Tools for Social Work Professionals
Purpose This article provides within-group effect size benchmarks for RCTs of group-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for adults with anxiety and/or depression. Methods A systematic literature search of RCTs of the group-based ACT intervention was conducted following PRISMA guidelines. Articles were selected based on predetermined eligibility criteria. Pre/post within-group effect sizes were calculated using the Glass approach, adjust…
Can Anti-Oppressive Clinical Practice Be Compatible With Evidence-Informed Clinical Practice
Social work’s historical commitment to pursuing social justice for oppressed populations has never been more needed than it is today as the very young children of Latinx families seeking refuge at
Benchmarks for Evaluating Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy in Alleviating Depression among Older Adults
The efficacy of reminiscence and life review (LR) therapy in alleviating depression among older adults is well established. However, providers in nonresearch settings might implement these interventions inadequately, and such settings rarely can evaluate their outcomes using control groups. Alternatively, evaluators in such settings can calculate a within-group effect size and then compare it with average within-group effect size benchmarks deriv…
Within-Group Effect Size Benchmarks for Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Adult Depression
This article provides benchmark data on within-group effect sizes from published randomized clinical trials supporting the efficacy of cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) in the treatment of adult depression. Data from 84 studies that met the inclusion criteria were recorded independently by the two authors, with a 95.8% agreement rate. Aggregate within-group effect size benchmarks are provided for CBT groups and control groups and are broken down…
A Practitioner-Friendly Empirical Way to Evaluate Practice
Social work practitioners and the agencies that employ them have long been concerned with how best to evaluate whether the interventions that they adopt are being provided appropriately or with desired outcomes. The realities of practice in everyday service provision settings, however, make it difficult to use well-controlled research designs for evaluation purposes in such settings-especially designs involving the use of control groups. The purp…
Benchmarks for Outpatient Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in Adults With Borderline Personality Disorder
Purpose: This article provides benchmark data on within-group effect sizes from published randomized clinical trials supporting the efficacy of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adults aged 18–65 years. Method: Within-group effect sizes were calculated via the Glass approach and adjusted for sample size using Hedges’s g then aggregated to produce benchmarks for symptoms commonly associated with BPD,…
Within-Group Effect-Size Benchmarks for Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Children and Adolescents
Purpose: This article provides benchmark data on within-group effect sizes from published randomized clinical trials (RCTs) supporting the efficacy of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) for traumatized children. Methods: Within-group effect-size benchmarks for symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and depression were calculated via the Glass approach and adjusted for sample size using Hedges’ g. Results: Overall TF-CBT and control group …
Within-Group Effect-Size Benchmarks for Problem-Solving Therapy for Depression in Adults
This article provides benchmark data on within-group effect sizes from published randomized clinical trials that supported the efficacy of problem-solving therapy (PST) for depression among adults. Benchmarks are broken down by type of depression (major or minor), type of outcome measure (interview or self-report scale), whether PST was provided to elderly participants in poor health, and whether an intent-to-treat analysis was conducted. Practit…
Empowerment Series: Essential Research Methods for Social Work
A Problem-Solving Therapy Intervention for Low-Income, Pregnant Women at Risk for Postpartum Depression
Postpartum Depression (PPD) occurs at higher rates among impoverished mothers than the general population. Depression during pregnancy is one of the strongest predictors of developing PPD. Research indicates that non-pharmacological interventions are effective in reducing depressive symptoms but engaging and retaining low-income mothers remains a challenge. A brief, educational intervention delivered through home visits may be an ideal setting fo…
Outcome Benchmarks for Adaptations of Research-Supported Treatments for Adult Traumatic Stress
This article provides benchmark data on within-group effect sizes from published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated the efficacy of research-supported treatments (RSTs) for adult traumatic stress. Agencies can compare these benchmarks to their treatment group effect size to inform their decisions as to whether the way they are adopting or adapting one of these RSTs is satisfactory or needs to be modified or replaced by a different…
Evidence-Based Practice Empowers Practitioners: A Response to Epstein
Epstein makes a strong argument for the value of clinical data mining (CDM), although he minimizes some of the potential limitations in that methodology, such as attrition. Epstein’s portrayal of evidence-based practice (EBP) as practitioner-bashing and treasuring intervention manuals overlooks the emphasis in the EBP process on the need for practitioners to use their clinical expertise and judgment in deciding whether and how to implement resear…
Efforts to Bridge the Gap Between Research and Practice in Social Work: Precedents and Prospects: Keynote Address at the Bridging the Gap Symposium
This keynote address discusses previous and ongoing efforts to reduce the persistent gap between research and practice in social work and offers recommendations for further bridging that gap. Key among those recommendations is the need to conduct descriptive outcome studies of efforts to adapt research-supported interventions in everyday practice settings to develop a database of case studies that can be analyzed to ferret out the factors associa…
A Half-Century of Social Work Research: Advances and New Challenges
This article provides an autobiographical account of the evolution and role of social work research since the beginning of my career as a social worker in the late 1960s. It traces the bumpy road from the days when the profession’s attitude about research was, at best, ambivalent to today’s emphasis on evidence-informed practice and empirically supported treatments. It ends by identifying several new challenges and their implications for future e…
Handbook of military social work
Civilian Social Work with Veterans Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan: A Call to Action
Journal Article Civilian Social Work with Veterans Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan: A Call to Action Get access Allen Rubin Allen Rubin Allen Rubin, PhD,Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 57, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 293–296, https…
The mediating role of acculturative stress in the relationship between acculturation level and depression among Korean immigrants in the U.S
Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale-Short Version
Objective: This report describes the reliability and validity of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale (EBPPAS)— Short Version, validated with three disciplines (Social Work, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs), and Psychologists), that assesses practitioners’ perceived familiarity with, attitudes about, and implementation of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: Social work practitioners, psychologists and…
An Effective Model for Continuing Education Training in Evidence-Based Practice
This study utilized a replicated one-group pretest-posttest design with 3 month follow-up to evaluate the impact of a one-day continuing education training on the evidence-based practice (EBP) process with community practitioners (N = 69). Outcome measures assessed the level of workshop participants’ familiarity with the EBP process, their attitudes toward the EBP process, their perceived feasibility of the EBP process, their intentions to engage…
Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale
Objective: This report describes the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of a scale that assesses practitioners’ perceived familiarity with, attitudes of, and implementation of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: Social work practitioners and second-year master of social works (MSW) students (N = 511) were surveyed in four sites to assess the scale’s internal consistency reliability and criterion and factorial validity. Addition…
Development and Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale: Preliminary Findings
Objective: This report describes the development and preliminary findings regarding the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of a scale that has been developed to assess practitioners’ perceived familiarity with, attitudes about, and implementation of the phases of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: After a panel of national experts on EBP supported the scale’s content validity, social workers were surveyed by mail in Texas and …
Practice Effectiveness: More Grounds for Optimism
Recent experiments have provided more grounds for optimism regarding the development of effective forms of direct social work practice. This review updates the field concerning experiments that have been conducted subsequent to prior reviews. Twelve research studies published between July 1, 1978, and June 30, 1983, are examined
Assessment of Posttraumatic Symptoms in Children: Development and Preliminary Validation of Parent and Child Scales
The authors report on the development and initial validation of two brief measures of children’s posttraumatic symptoms: a child self-report and a parent report. Intended applications include postdisaster screening, tracking children’s recovery in research and clinical settings, and screening for posttraumatic stress among children with various presenting problems. A sample of 206 urban and rural schoolchildren, Grades 3 through 8, and their pare…
Views of Evidence-Based Practice Among Faculty in Master of Social Work Programs: A National Survey
Objective: A national online survey assessed the views of 973 faculty members in master of social work programs regarding their receptivity toward, definition of, and views of disparate sources of evidence pertinent to evidence-based practice (EBP) and the teaching of EBP. Method: Due to Internet-related technical difficulties, the response rate could not be precisely determined; however, it was at least 33% and conceivably much higher. Results: …
The mediating role of acculturative stress in the relationship between acculturation level and depression among Korean immigrants in the U.S
Case Management in Mental Health: A Social Work Domain
Despite the growing popularity of case management in caring for clients' multiple needs, the concept lacks clarity, with alternative approaches focusing variously on psychotherapy or the provision of resources. Citing the conceptual commonality between social work and case management, the authors explore the potential for claiming case management as a social work domain
Improving the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice: Introduction to the Special Issue
This article synthesizes the highlights emanating from the proceedings of a National Symposium on Improving the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice. Most of the ideas in it have been culled from the articles in this issue, and a few were culled from the symposium discussions. I do not take credit for any of these ideas, only for the synthesis of them
Standards for Rigor in Qualitative Inquiry
An Effective Model for Continuing Education Training in Evidence-Based Practice
This study utilized a replicated one-group pretest-posttest design with 3 month follow-up to evaluate the impact of a one-day continuing education training on the evidence-based practice (EBP) process with community practitioners (N = 69). Outcome measures assessed the level of workshop participants’ familiarity with the EBP process, their attitudes toward the EBP process, their perceived feasibility of the EBP process, their intentions to engage…
Comparing the Effectiveness of Gender-Specific and Couples Groups in a Court-Mandated Spouse Abuse Treatment Program
This study represents the first attempt to directly compare two common methods of providing spouse abuse intervention, group treatment of couples, or gender-specific groups. Forty-nine couples were randomly assigned to one of the two treatments. Of these, data were available at posttest on only 42 couples because of attrition of the victimized spouses. A multiple analysis of covariance at posttest demonstrated that for the majority of abusers it …
Data Analysis Problems in Single-Case Evaluation: Issues for Research on Social Work Practice
Data analysis problems, particularly involving the likelihood of obtaining visually ambiguous graphs, pose a barrier to efforts to promote increased use of smgle-case evaluation by practitioners. The debate about whether these efforts will eventually achieve sufficient success has thus far paid little attention to the impact of data analysis problems on practitioners' propensity to sustain a commitment to conducting single-case evaluations. This …
Gender and Publication Rates: A Reassessment with Population Data
Researchers have disagreed over the importance of gender in explaining publication rates among social work faculty. One possible reason for disagreement is that the data base was inadequate. Variables other than gender could not be simultaneously controlled. The current study, using a newly available data base, controlled for variables other than gender. No meaningful differences in gender were found in publication rates. Women seem to be publish…
Significance Testing with Population Data
Outcome Benchmarks for Adaptations of Research-Supported Treatments for Adult Traumatic Stress
This article provides benchmark data on within-group effect sizes from published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated the efficacy of research-supported treatments (RSTs) for adult traumatic stress. Agencies can compare these benchmarks to their treatment group effect size to inform their decisions as to whether the way they are adopting or adapting one of these RSTs is satisfactory or needs to be modified or replaced by a different…
Efforts to Bridge the Gap Between Research and Practice in Social Work: Precedents and Prospects: Keynote Address at the Bridging the Gap Symposium
This keynote address discusses previous and ongoing efforts to reduce the persistent gap between research and practice in social work and offers recommendations for further bridging that gap. Key among those recommendations is the need to conduct descriptive outcome studies of efforts to adapt research-supported interventions in everyday practice settings to develop a database of case studies that can be analyzed to ferret out the factors associa…
Development and Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale: Preliminary Findings
Objective: This report describes the development and preliminary findings regarding the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of a scale that has been developed to assess practitioners’ perceived familiarity with, attitudes about, and implementation of the phases of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: After a panel of national experts on EBP supported the scale’s content validity, social workers were surveyed by mail in Texas and …
Within-Group Effect-Size Benchmarks for Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Children and Adolescents
Purpose: This article provides benchmark data on within-group effect sizes from published randomized clinical trials (RCTs) supporting the efficacy of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) for traumatized children. Methods: Within-group effect-size benchmarks for symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and depression were calculated via the Glass approach and adjusted for sample size using Hedges’ g. Results: Overall TF-CBT and control group …
Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale
Objective: This report describes the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of a scale that assesses practitioners’ perceived familiarity with, attitudes of, and implementation of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: Social work practitioners and second-year master of social works (MSW) students (N = 511) were surveyed in four sites to assess the scale’s internal consistency reliability and criterion and factorial validity. Addition…
Problematic Phrases in the Conclusions of Published Outcome Studies: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice
Objective: This study examined the extent to which conclusions of published outcome studies contain phrases that could be misconstrued as implying more empirical support than is warranted. Methods: All articles (N = 138) reporting outcome studies from 2000 to 2005 in two social work research journals and two topical database searches were assessed regarding research design, findings, and wording of conclusions. Substantial interrater agreement wa…
Civilian Social Work with Veterans Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan: A Call to Action
Journal Article Civilian Social Work with Veterans Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan: A Call to Action Get access Allen Rubin Allen Rubin Allen Rubin, PhD,Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 57, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 293–296, https…
Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale-Short Version
Objective: This report describes the reliability and validity of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale (EBPPAS)— Short Version, validated with three disciplines (Social Work, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs), and Psychologists), that assesses practitioners’ perceived familiarity with, attitudes about, and implementation of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: Social work practitioners, psychologists and…
Straight Talk”: The Effectiveness of a Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Heterosexuals with HIV/Aids
A quasi-experimental research study found that a 6-week psychoeducational group intervention was effective in alleviating stress, depression, and anxiety among eight heterosexual persons with HIV/AIDS in an experimental group. The group intervention consisted of both educational topics and psychological support. Scores on several measures changed significantly from pretest to posttest. A comparison group of heterosexual persons living with HIV/AI…
The Effectiveness of Outreach Counseling and Support Groups for Battered Women: A Preliminary Evaluation
This study evaluates the effectiveness of an outreach counseling and support group intervention for battered women who are not staying in a shelter. The intervention, provided by social workers and other staff members, is relatively unstructured. AB single-case designs are aggregated across 6 women participating in the program. Outcome is assessed via daily telephone moni toring of the frequency of specified thoughts, feelings and behaviors of th…
A Practitioner-Friendly Empirical Way to Evaluate Practice
Social work practitioners and the agencies that employ them have long been concerned with how best to evaluate whether the interventions that they adopt are being provided appropriately or with desired outcomes. The realities of practice in everyday service provision settings, however, make it difficult to use well-controlled research designs for evaluation purposes in such settings-especially designs involving the use of control groups. The purp…
A Half-Century of Social Work Research: Advances and New Challenges
This article provides an autobiographical account of the evolution and role of social work research since the beginning of my career as a social worker in the late 1960s. It traces the bumpy road from the days when the profession’s attitude about research was, at best, ambivalent to today’s emphasis on evidence-informed practice and empirically supported treatments. It ends by identifying several new challenges and their implications for future e…
A Historical Account of the Society for Social Work and Research: Presidential Perspectives on Advances in Research Infrastructure
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) was founded in 1994 to provide a meeting ground and support organization for individual social workers who engage in research. Over its first 14 years, SSWR has grown from a modest-sized organization that hosted an initial conference to a large and influential force that sponsors a wildly successful yearly conference. SSWR's annual conference now showcases a portfolio of awards, including a travel s…
Commitment to community mental health aftercare services: Staffing and structural implications
Mental health service priorities and the BSW
Case Management in Mental Health: A Social Work Domain
Despite the growing popularity of case management in caring for clients' multiple needs, the concept lacks clarity, with alternative approaches focusing variously on psychotherapy or the provision of resources. Citing the conceptual commonality between social work and case management, the authors explore the potential for claiming case management as a social work domain
Practice Effectiveness: More Grounds for Optimism
Recent experiments have provided more grounds for optimism regarding the development of effective forms of direct social work practice. This review updates the field concerning experiments that have been conducted subsequent to prior reviews. Twelve research studies published between July 1, 1978, and June 30, 1983, are examined
Significance Testing with Population Data
Tunnel Vision in the Search for Effective Interventions: Rubin Responds
Tunnel Vision in the Search for Effective Interventions: Rubin Responds Allen Rubin Allen Rubin School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 5, September-October 1986, Pages 403–404, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/31.5.403 Published: 01 September 1986
Gender and Publication Rates: A Reassessment with Population Data
Researchers have disagreed over the importance of gender in explaining publication rates among social work faculty. One possible reason for disagreement is that the data base was inadequate. Variables other than gender could not be simultaneously controlled. The current study, using a newly available data base, controlled for variables other than gender. No meaningful differences in gender were found in publication rates. Women seem to be publish…
Gender and Salary in Graduate Schools of Social Work: An Outworn Issue
The study reported in this article reassessed gender-related inequities in the salaries of faculty members of graduate schools of social work in light of methodological questions about earlier research on this issue. A secondary analysis did not support the findings that important inequities exist or that those inequities are smaller in New England or in schools with female deans. It appears that salary is the wrong dependent variable for researc…
The Effectiveness of Outreach Counseling and Support Groups for Battered Women: A Preliminary Evaluation
This study evaluates the effectiveness of an outreach counseling and support group intervention for battered women who are not staying in a shelter. The intervention, provided by social workers and other staff members, is relatively unstructured. AB single-case designs are aggregated across 6 women participating in the program. Outcome is assessed via daily telephone moni toring of the frequency of specified thoughts, feelings and behaviors of th…
Comparing the Effectiveness of Gender-Specific and Couples Groups in a Court-Mandated Spouse Abuse Treatment Program
This study represents the first attempt to directly compare two common methods of providing spouse abuse intervention, group treatment of couples, or gender-specific groups. Forty-nine couples were randomly assigned to one of the two treatments. Of these, data were available at posttest on only 42 couples because of attrition of the victimized spouses. A multiple analysis of covariance at posttest demonstrated that for the majority of abusers it …
The Inflaming and Defaming of the Shrewd
Data Analysis Problems in Single-Case Evaluation: Issues for Research on Social Work Practice
Data analysis problems, particularly involving the likelihood of obtaining visually ambiguous graphs, pose a barrier to efforts to promote increased use of smgle-case evaluation by practitioners. The debate about whether these efforts will eventually achieve sufficient success has thus far paid little attention to the impact of data analysis problems on practitioners' propensity to sustain a commitment to conducting single-case evaluations. This …
Straight Talk”: The Effectiveness of a Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Heterosexuals with HIV/Aids
A quasi-experimental research study found that a 6-week psychoeducational group intervention was effective in alleviating stress, depression, and anxiety among eight heterosexual persons with HIV/AIDS in an experimental group. The group intervention consisted of both educational topics and psychological support. Scores on several measures changed significantly from pretest to posttest. A comparison group of heterosexual persons living with HIV/AI…
The family preservation evaluation from hell: Implications for program evaluation fidelity
Assessment of Posttraumatic Symptoms in Children: Development and Preliminary Validation of Parent and Child Scales
The authors report on the development and initial validation of two brief measures of children’s posttraumatic symptoms: a child self-report and a parent report. Intended applications include postdisaster screening, tracking children’s recovery in research and clinical settings, and screening for posttraumatic stress among children with various presenting problems. A sample of 206 urban and rural schoolchildren, Grades 3 through 8, and their pare…
The Society for Social Work and Research: Successes and Future Challenges
Standards for Rigor in Qualitative Inquiry
Self-Help Group Meeting Attendance among Clients with Dual Diagnoses
This study explores factors associated with self-help group meeting attendance in the aftercare of 81 clients with dual diagnoses of severe mental illness and chemical dependency following their discharge from an inpatient chemical dependency treatment program. It also explores the association between self-help group meeting attendance and treatment outcomes. Data were collected from patient records and results of the Addiction Severity Index (AS…
The Effectiveness of EMDR in a Child Guidance Center
Objective: This study evaluated the effectiveness of adding EMDR to the routine treatment regimen of child therapists. Method: Thirty-nine child guidance center clients were randomly assigned to an experimental group that received EMDR plus the center’s routine treatment package or a control group that received only the center’s routine treatment package. Results: Analyses of variance found no significant differences in Child Behavior Checklist s…
Gender Differences in Dually-Diagnosed Clients Receiving Chemical Dependency Treatment
This article considers gender differences among 97 clients with dual diagnoses of severe mental illness and chemical dependency (46 male and 51 female). Comparisons are made at the time of their admission to an inpatient chemical dependency treatment program and at follow-up in cases where data are available. Many of the findings at time of admission are consistent with the few studies that have compared men and women with co-occurring mental and…
The Effectiveness of an Integrated Treatment Approach for Clients With Dual Diagnoses
Objective: A randomized experiment tested the effectiveness of adding a psychoeducationally oriented group therapy intervention, Good Chemistry Groups, to standard inpatient chemical dependency services for clients dually diagnosed with mental and substance dependence disorders. Method: Ninety-seven clients were randomly assigned to an experimental group (n = 48) and a control group (n = 49). Outcome variables included drug and alcohol use, parti…
Evaluation of a Psychoeducational Group for Seronegative Partners and Spouses of Persons with HIV/Aids
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a time-limited psychoeducational group intervention for cohabiting partners and spouses of persons with HIV/AIDS. The goals of the intervention were to decrease feelings of depression, anxiety, perceived stress, and stigma and to increase perceived social support. A pretest-posttest, quasi-experimental research design was used. A total of 19 partners or spouses received treatment, and 9 partners or spouse…
Views of Evidence-Based Practice Among Faculty in Master of Social Work Programs: A National Survey
Objective: A national online survey assessed the views of 973 faculty members in master of social work programs regarding their receptivity toward, definition of, and views of disparate sources of evidence pertinent to evidence-based practice (EBP) and the teaching of EBP. Method: Due to Internet-related technical difficulties, the response rate could not be precisely determined; however, it was at least 33% and conceivably much higher. Results: …
Epilogue: The Austin Initiative
This epilogue identifies efforts underway to implement the recommendations that have emerged based on the symposium papers and proceedings. Highlights of the initial efforts include establishing linkages with existing social work organizations and working within them, having follow-up symposia and presentations on evidence-based practice at various conferences, and reacting as a group to the preliminary new Educational Policy and Accreditation St…
Problematic Phrases in the Conclusions of Published Outcome Studies: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice
Objective: This study examined the extent to which conclusions of published outcome studies contain phrases that could be misconstrued as implying more empirical support than is warranted. Methods: All articles (N = 138) reporting outcome studies from 2000 to 2005 in two social work research journals and two topical database searches were assessed regarding research design, findings, and wording of conclusions. Substantial interrater agreement wa…
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