Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice

Автор книги: Allen Rubin id книги: 2285292 Оценка: 0.0 Голосов: 0 Отзывы, комментарии: 0 8596,25 руб. (87,71$) Читать книгу Купить и скачать книгу Электронная книга Жанр: Психотерапия и консультирование Правообладатель и/или издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited Дата добавления в каталог КнигаЛит: 12 марта 2022, 16:32 ISBN: 9781119858584 Скачать фрагмент в формате fb2 fb2.zip Возрастное ограничение: 0+ Оглавление Отрывок из книги

Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.

Описание книги

The latest edition of an essential text to help students and practitioners distinguish between research studies that should and should not influence practice decisions Now in its third edition, Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice delivers an essential and practical guide to integrating research appraisal into evidence-informed practice. The book walks you through the skills, knowledge, and strategies you can use to identify significant strengths and limitations in research. The ability to appraise the veracity and validity of research will improve your service provision and practice decisions. By teaching you to be a critical consumer of modern research, this book helps you avoid treatments based on fatally flawed research and methodologies. Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice, Third Edition offers: An extensive introduction to evidence-informed practice, including explorations of unethical research and discussions of social justice in the context of evidence-informed practice. Explanations of how to appraise studies on intervention efficacy, including the criteria for inferring effectiveness and critically examining experiments. Discussions of how to critically appraise studies for alternative evidence-informed practice questions, including nonexperimental quantitative studies and qualitative studies. A comprehensive and authoritative blueprint for critically assessing research studies, interventions, programs, policies, and assessment tools, Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice belongs in the bookshelves of students and practitioners of the social sciences.

Отрывок из книги

THIRD EDITION

Allen Rubin

.....

When asking which approach has the best effects, we implicitly acknowledge that for some target problems there is more than one effective approach. For example, the book Programs and Interventions for Maltreated Children and Families (Rubin, 2012) contains 20 chapters on 20 different approaches whose effectiveness with maltreated children and their families has been empirically supported. Some of these programs and interventions are more costly than others. Varying costs are connected to factors such as the minimum degree level and amount of experience required in staffing, the extent and costs of practitioner training, caseload maximums, amount number of treatment sessions required, materials and equipment, and so on. The child welfare field is not the only one in which more than one empirically supported approach can be found. And it is not the only one in which agency administrators or direct service practitioners are apt to deem some of these approaches to be unaffordable. An important part of practitioner expertise includes knowledge about the resources available to you in your practice context. Consequently, when searching for and finding programs or interventions that have the best effects, you should also ask about their costs. You may not be able to afford the approach with the best effects, and instead may have to settle for one with less extensive or less conclusive empirical support.

But affordability is not the only issue when asking about costs. Another pertains to the ratio of costs to benefits. For example, imagine that you were to find two empirically supported programs for reducing dropout rates in schools with high dropout rates. Suppose that providing the program with the best empirical support – let's call it Program A – costs $200,000 per school and that it is likely to reduce the number of dropouts per school by 100. That comes to $2,000 per reduced dropout. In contrast, suppose that providing the program with the second best empirical support – let's call it Program B – costs $50,000 per school and that it is likely to reduce the number of dropouts per school by 50. That comes to $1,000 per reduced dropout – half the cost per dropout than Program A.

.....

Добавить отзыв