Building evidence: What it takes and what it yields

Article Abstract:

An expert in the field of public welfare describes her thirty years of experience in the design and conduct of a series of large scale and controlled studies in her field. It is felt that the use of randomized controlled studies is the strongest research methodology in order to test large-scale social welfare policies.

Government domestic functions, Evaluation, Social policy, Social service, Social welfare

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Targets of change and interventions in social work: An empirically based prototype for developing practice guidelines

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Studies evaluating interventions were used as data to illustrate a rudimentary prototype of practice compromising a taxonomy of outcome targets, and their associated arrays of interventions. To discuss the adequacy of intervention research in social work this data is used.

Science & research, Research, Social work, Social case work

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Child welfare and the courts: A statewide study with implications for professional development, practice and change

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The results of a two-stage study of courts and the child welfare (CW) system are reported. Results show the need for making changes in the functioning of courts in CW cases, professional development of CW staff, CW practice and others.

Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Child Abuse, Child welfare

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