LibGuides: Social Work: Evidence-Based (EBP) Resources

What is Evidence-based Practice?

"Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a five-step process used to select, deliver, and evaluate individual and social interventions aimed at preventing or ameliorating client problems and social conditions. At its most basic level, EBP seeks to systematically integrate evidence about the efficacy of interventions in clinical decision-making."

Jenson, J., & Howard, M.(2008). Evidence-Based Practice. In Encyclopedia of Social Work. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 Jun. 2015, from http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195306613.001.0001/acref-9780195306613-e-137.

Encyclopedia of Social Work

Resources for Evidence-based Practice

Advancing Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Toolkit on Recognizing and Conducting Opportunistic Experiments in the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Policy Area
This report describes in detail how researchers, policymakers, and program administrators can recognize opportunities for experiments and carry them out. Specifically, the report focuses on opportunistic experiments, defined as randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that study the effects of initiatives, program changes, or policy actions that agencies or programs plan or intend to implement – as opposed to studying an intervention or policy action that is developed and implemented specifically for a research study.
Campbell Collaboration
The Campbell Collaboration promotes positive social and economic change through the production and use of systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis for evidence-based policy and practice.
The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library (ISSN 1465-1858) is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice
"Aims of the EBBP project are to create tools to improve research and practice training for psychosocial interventions, build the evidence base for behavioral treatments, and upgrade evidence-based behavioral practice."
Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Reports
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its EPCs, sponsors the development of various reports to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the quality of healthcare in the United States.
Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center
From the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, "The Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center provides communities, clinicians, policy-makers and others with the information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings."
Harvard Dataverse
"The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets."
National Council on Aging
"Use this tool to search for evidence-based programs that match your community's needs and are approved for funding through Older Americans Act Title III-D."
SAMHSA Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center
The Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center provides communities, clinicians, policy-makers and others with the information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings.
Social Programs That Work
This site seeks to identify those social programs shown in rigorous studies to produce sizable, sustained benefits to participants and/or society, so that they can be deployed to help solve social problems. The specific purpose is to enable policy officials and other readers to distinguish credible findings of program effectiveness from the many others that claim to be.
Youth.gov
youth.gov (formerly FindYouthInfo.gov) was created by the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP), which is composed of representatives from 13 federal departments and 12 federal agencies that support programs and services focusing on youth. The IWGYP promotes the goal of positive, healthy outcomes for youth. Includes examples of using evidence based research for funding.

Books for Evidence-Based Practice

Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies by Chris Freeman (Editor); Mick Power (Editor)
Call Number: Reference Collection RC455.2.E94 H3622 2007
ISBN: 9780471498209
Publication Date: 2007-05-07
Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment by Faye S. Taxman; Steven Belenko
Call Number: HV7419 .T39 2012
ISBN: 9781461404118
Publication Date: 2011-11-19
Mental Health Social Work by Colin Pritchard
Call Number: HV689 .P65 2006
ISBN: 9780415319027
Publication Date: 2006-04-12
Smith's Patient Centered Interviewing: an Evidence-Based Method, Fourth Edition by Robert C. Smith; Auguste H. Fortin; Francesca C. Dwamena; Richard M. Frankel; Brenda L. Lepisto
ISBN: 9781259644627
Publication Date: 2018-08-31
Social Work in Mental Health by John S. Wodarski (Editor); Bruce A. Thyer (Editor)
Call Number: HV689 .S638 2007
ISBN: 9780471693048
Publication Date: 2007-01-02
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy by Cynthia Franklin (Editor); Terry S. Trepper (Editor); Eric E. McCollum (Editor); Wallace J. Gingerich (Editor)
Call Number: RC489.S65 S65 2012
ISBN: 9780195385724
Publication Date: 2011-08-25