scholarly journals Parent-Implemented Hanen Program It Takes Two to Talk®: An Exploratory Study in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 8214
Author(s):  
Nuria Senent-Capuz ◽  
Inmaculada Baixauli-Fortea ◽  
Carmen Moret-Tatay
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Clinical Management ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Expressive Vocabulary ◽  
Late Talkers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Difficulties

Parent-implemented interventions are a highly common approach for enhancing communication and linguistic abilities of late talkers, involving a population that shows a small expressive vocabulary in the absence of other deficits that could explain it. This study aimed to compare the outcomes of a parent-implemented language intervention, It Takes Two to Talk®—The Hanen Program® for Parents (ITTT), to a clinician-directed therapy. Participants were 17 families and their late-talking children: 10 families took part in ITTT and 7 in the clinician-directed modality. The outcomes in the social communication domain were more favorable for the ITTT group, but there were no significant differences between groups as regards vocabulary and syntax. In terms of parents, the research focused on examining if there were significant changes in parents’ stress and their perceptions of their children’s communication abilities. No differences were observed in the level of stress. In contrast, the group that received the ITTT program significantly altered their perceptions of their children’s communication difficulties in comparison with the clinician-directed therapy. These results have implications in the clinical management of late-talking children, and they are discussed in terms of evidence-based practice.

scholarly journals Evidence-based practice in social work: Who are the critics?

2020 ◽  
pp. 146801732095513
Author(s):  
Joakim Finne
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
The Social

Summary The aim of this study is to analyse attitudes towards and the utilisation of evidence-based practice among social workers in Norway. The data were collected in 2014–2015 from social workers in four Norwegian counties. The sample consists of 2060 social workers registered as members of the Norwegian Union of Social Educators and Social Workers. Findings The main findings in this study indicate that social workers in child welfare are generally less critical of evidence-based practice than those within social welfare. Higher education and knowledge about evidence-based practice are seen as predictors for less critical attitudes towards the concept. The findings further suggest that social workers who use manuals and standardised procedures are less critical of evidence-based practice. Applications Understanding social workers’ attitudes towards evidence-based practice is important in order to facilitate the best possible practices. This study emphasises the importance of increasing knowledge of evidence-based practice in the social sector, and the need to further investigate how research methods and evidence-based practice concepts are translated into practice.

Developmental Profile of Social Communication: Findings in Typical Developing Greek Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-204
Author(s):  
Ioannis Vogindroukas ◽  
Evripidis Nikolaos Chelas ◽  
Nikolaos E. Petridis
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Developmental Profile ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Therapeutic Goals ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Difficulties ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into

<b><i>Objectives:</i></b> The Developmental Profile of Social Communication (DPSC) is based on the communication and language development in children with social communication difficulties. DPSC facilitates understanding of the challenges these children face in social interaction, communication, and linguistic development. It utilizes clinician and parent responses to build the developmental profiles of individuals. The profile allows clinicians to determine the therapeutic goals for improved cooperation and communication in various contexts. In addition, it provides insight into the parents’ perspective. The aim of this study is to present the preliminary results of the DPSC in typically developing Greek children. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> The DPSC, a 112-item questionnaire, was administered to 357 parents of typically developing children aged 2–7.5 years using a 3-scale rating of answers. It was applied electronically via Google forms, and parents were able to ask for clarification on questions. All answers were categorized and then analyzed under independent variables. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Descriptive and hypothesis testing were used to summarize participant characteristics and performance. Findings suggest that children &#x3e;7.5 years tended to develop most of the rated skills of DPSC adequately. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> It was determined that the DPSC questionnaire is an easily administered tool that enables the evaluation of the social communication abilities of children of different ages.

Evidence-Based Practice in the Social Services

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Johnson ◽  
Michael J. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals The Need for Evidence-Based Practice in the Foster Care Field among Social Workers in Gulf Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Hassan Arab
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Field ◽  
Temporary Solution

The demand for Evidence-Based Practice "EBP" has been growing for a long-term and yet, there isn't a reply to this growth. Social Workers continue to rely on personal perspective, common sense, tradition when working with their clients in the foster care field as well as their personal beliefs in their assessment and intervention plans. Throughout a journey around the GCC countries to compare the adoption systems, and the social worker's work perspective in all the assessment stages, and tracing to intervention plans or treatment methods; it was noted that social workers still consume and revive an environment free of any evidence-based practices. In order to patch this glitch a sample of a practice sheet that consists of theoretical framework can be used as a temporary solution in order to provide an evidence-based practices in the foster care field.

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.

Navigating Practice-Informed Evidence and Evidence-Based Practice

2014 ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
Margaret Pack
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Standards Of Practice ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Work

This chapter explores social workers' application of practice evidence in their everyday work in team and agency contexts. Practice evidence concerns the practitioner seeking the best available knowledge, accessed, adapted, and applied to guide practice with clients. How social workers decide which sources to draw from and which are appropriate sources of evidence for practice is based on many considerations. These include the social worker's values and ethics for practice, legislative and policy requirements, professional standards of practice, and the range of theories applied to any case or situation encountered in practice. Practice wisdom, or the experience gained in the repetition of seeing the same kind of client presentations across time, produces a further source which is drawn upon within the social worker's repertoire of knowledge. In this sense, there are multiple knowledge frameworks within which social workers operate, balancing contradictory and competing discourses about “what works” in any practice situation.

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