Producing Knowledge for Evidence-Based Practice and the Future of Social Work Research

2018 ◽  
pp. 173-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haluk Soydan
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
The Future

Gestalt Therapy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton T. Shorkey ◽  
Michael Uebel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Gestalt Therapy ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Future

The entry defines Gestalt therapy, including brief history, major influences, contributors, and current status of Gestalt therapy in terms of memberships and journals. Key concepts are outlined, and the effectiveness and potential for Gestalt therapy's status as an evidence-based practice is framed in relation to recent overviews of empirical research and to what is needed in the future for further research. While the current literature in social work does not reflect a strong emphasis on Gestalt, we emphasize some of the philosophical and ethical compatibilities between these approaches.

Research: Overview

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Tripodi ◽  
Marina Lalayants
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
The State ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
International Social

This entry reviews the state of social work research from the appearance of the social work research overview in the previous encyclopedia to the early 2010s. Social work research is defined, and its purposes, contents, training, location, and auspices are briefly discussed. Continuing issues and developments, as well as the emerging developments of evidence-based practice, practice-based research, cultural competence, and international social work research, are featured.

Social work research over time

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Over Time

This chapter talks about the influence of scholars' general worldview on how they see social work. Turning its gaze to the past, the chapter briefly demonstrates how the ways scholars write and speak about research have changed, giving significant space to the role of experimentation in social work. The chapter examines the idea of the experimenting society, especially through the work of Ada Sheffield; at the success story of evidence based practice; and at a forgotten strand of experimental sociology. It then moves to consider the emergence of innovations in social work, taking task-centred social work as a main example. The ground covered in this chapter distinctively exemplifies the point regarding the synthesis of scepticism and practicality.

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