As an evidence-based practitioner, what would you do if you were conducting a search for evidence and you found one research study that supported the treatment used by your agency, and one study that failed to support this treatment? Would you, for example, employ the treatment favored by your agency and use the one study as your evidence or would you continue your search? How much evidence would you seek before you believe you had sufficiently reviewed the literature?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The evidence-based social worker would continue the search, with a focus on finding a systematic review, followed, if necessary, by a search for meta-analyses, and so forth. Sufficient evidence would be indicated by summaries of systematic reviews or meta-analyses that supported the chosen treatment, or your own review of articles that show more support than refutation. Another source would be certain databases such as the American Psychological Association where ratings of treatments for selected target behaviors can be found.
Learning Objective: 4.2: Define the concept of EBP.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Nature of Evidence-Based Practice
Difficulty Level: Medium
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