Targets of Change and Interventions in Social Work: An Empirically Based Prototype for Developing Practice Guidelines  

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Rosen, Aaron ; Proctor, Enola K. ; Staudt, Marlys

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Research on Social Work Practice vol. 13 no. 2 (Mar. 2003), page 208-233.
Topik: interventions; practice guidelines; intervention research; outcomes
Fulltext: 208RSWP132.pdf (109.41KB)

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Objective: Studies evaluating interventions were used as data to illustrate a rudimentary prototype of practice guidelines comprising two components: a taxonomy of outcome targets, and their associated arrays of interventions.We use the data to discuss the adequacy of intervention research in social work for contributing to practice guidelines. Method: Data were all the outcomes and their associated interventions investigated and reported in 13 social work journals over a four and a half year period, totaling 126 studies. Results: The outcomes and interventions were classified according to eight outcome target domains, yielding the practice guidelines prototype. The research was unevenly distributed across the eight target domains, and a pattern of ‘single outcome-single intervention’design was evident across all target domains. Conclusions: Data suggest insufficient attention to comparative evaluation of interventions and to assessing effectiveness across client populations and service settings, and need for better-designed and prioritized intervention research overall.

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