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Required
Rubin, A. (2007). Practitioner's
guide to using research for evidence-based practice: John Wiley and
Sons, Inc.
Recommended Textbooks:
Gibbs, L. E. (2003). Evidence-based practice for the helping professions:
A practical guide with integrated multimedia. Pacific Grove, CA:
Brooks/Cole-Thompson Learning.
Thyer, B., & Myers, L. L.
(2007). A social Worker's guide to evaluating practice outcomes.
Alexandria: Virginia: Council on Social Work Education.
Recommended
Bledsoe, S.
E., Weissman, M. M., Mullen, E. J., Betts, K., Gameroff, M. J., Verdeli,
H., et al. (2007). Empirically supported psychotherapy in social work
training programs: Does the definition of evidence matter? . Research
on Social Work Practice, 17(4), 449 - 455.
Brief Treatment and
Crisis Intervention, 2004, 4(numbers 2&3). Special issues
on evidence-based practice in social work and allied disciplines.
Cooper, H. (1998). Synthesizing
Research (3rd ed. Vol. 2). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Cooper, H., & Hedges, L.
V. (Eds.). (1994). The Handbook of Research Synthesis. New York:
Russell Sage Foundation.
Fang, L., Manuel, J.,
Bledsoe, S. E., & Bellamy, J. L. (2007). Finding Existing Knowledge. In
R. M. Grinnell & Y. A. Unrau (Eds.), Social work research and
evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches (8 ed.). New York:
Oxford University Press.
Greenhalgh, T. (2001). How
to read a paper (2 ed.): BMJ Books. (available free on-line as part of
the User's Guide series below. See instructions for accessing the Users'
Guide provided in the next citation below for Guyatt, et al. The
series can be accessed under the "Further Study" tab of the
Users' Guide.) These references are available also on the library reserve
list for this course. This series includes the following papers:
·
How to read a paper:
Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
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How to
read a paper: Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
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How to
read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
·
How to
read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
·
How to
read a paper: Papers that report drug trials
·
How to
read a paper: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and
meta-analyses)
·
How to
read a paper: Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)
·
How to
read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of
data need different statistical tests
·
How to
read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. II: 'Significant'
relations and their pitfalls
·
How to
read a paper: The Medline database
Guyatt, G., & Rennie, D.
(Eds.). (2002). Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. Chicago, Ill: AMA Press. (http://www.usersguides.org
Access is restricted to subscribers of the journals listed at this site. However,
interactive version available on-line at the JAMA web site can be accessed
free if you go on-line through the Columbia University library e-journal
portal. In the e-journal portal select JAMA; near the bottom of the JAMA
web page select the link to Users' Guide to the Medical Literature. Next
select the UGI tab on the right side of the page to sign in.)
Hunter, J., & Schmidt, F.
(2004). Methods of Meta-Analysis (2 ed.): Sage.
Lipsey, M., & Wilson, D.
(2000). Practical meta-analysis (Vol. 49). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publishers.
Littell, J. H., Corcoran, J.,
& Pillai, V. (2008). Systematic reviews and meta-analysis. New
York: Oxford.
Manuel, J., Fang, L.,
Bellamy, J. L., & Bledsoe, S. E. (2007). Evaluating Existing Evidence.
In R. M. Grinnell & Y. A. Unrau (Eds.), Social work research and
evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches (8 ed.). New York:
Oxford University Press.
Moore, A., & McQuay, H.
(Eds.). (2006). Bandolier's Little Book of Making Sense of the Medical
Evidence. New York: Oxford University Press.
Mullen, E. J., Bellamy, J.,
& Bledsoe, S. (2007). The cycle of evidence-based practice. In H.-U.
Otto, A. Polutta & H. Ziegler (Eds.), Evidence-based Practice -
Modernising the Knowledge Base of Social Work? (pp. 300).
Leverkusen-Opladen, Germany: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
Mullen, E. J., &
Streiner, D. L. (2004). The evidence for and against evidence based
practice. Brief Treatment and Crisis
Intervention, 4(2).
Petticrew, M., & Roberts,
H. (2006). Systematic reviews in the social sciences: A practical guide.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Research on Social Work
Practice 17(5). Special issue on teaching and learning evidence-based
practice in social work.
Roberts, A. R., & Yeager,
K. R. (Eds.). (2004). Evidence-based
practice manual: Research and outcome measures in health and human
services. New York: Oxford University Press.
Roberts, A. R., & Yeager,
K. R. (Eds.). (2006). Foundations of
evidence-based social work practice. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rosen, A., & Proctor, E.
(Eds.). (2003). Developing practice
guidelines for social work intervention: Issues, methods, and a research
agenda. New York: Columbia University Press.
Straus, S. E., Richardson, W.
S., Glasziou, P., & Haynes, R. B. (2005). Evidence-based medicine: How to practice and teach EBM (3rd
ed.). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Internet & CD Resources
- Centre
for Evidence-based Medicine web site at: http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/ . (Straus,
et al. book web site).
- Danya
International, Inc REACH-SW beta CD-ROM (on restricted library reserve
for this class's use only.
- Evidence-based
Practice for the Helping Professions (Gbbs' book)
web site at: http://www.evidence.brookscole.com/ .
- Social
Care Institute for Excellence in the UK has a web site for social work
and social care publications at http://www.scie.org.uk/
. At that site the data base called Social Care Online provides access
to publications.
- Campbell
Collaboration web site includes access to systematic reviews of social
work interventions (as well as in education and criminal justice) at http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/
.
- Cochrane
Collaboration web site provides access to systematic reviews in health
care including mental health at: http://www.cochrane.org/index.htm . This is a
companion collaboration to the Campbell Collaboration. Access the web
site through Columbia University library's portal for free access to
full reviews.
- Evidence-based
Behavioral Practice, Northwestern University at: http://www.ebbp.org/index.html . The
EBBP.org project creates training resources to help bridge the gap
between behavioral health research and practice. Professionals from
the major health disciplines are collaborating to learn, teach, and
implement evidence-based behavioral practice (EBBP). Watch videos of
experts from different behavioral health disciplines talk about
evidence-based practice (evidence-based practice tab).
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality at: http://www.ahcpr.gov/ . This site
provides access to a range of evidence-based practice resources
including a link to the National Guideline Clearinghouse.
- A
wide range of evidence-based policy and practice readings and internet
resources may be found at the instructors web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/musher/evidence-based%20practice%20reference%20list.htm
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