Examining the Premises Supporting the Empirically Supported Intervention Approach to Social Work Practice

Autor/inn/en	McBeath, Bowen; Briggs, Harold E.; Aisenberg, Eugene
Titel	Examining the Premises Supporting the Empirically Supported Intervention Approach to Social Work Practice
Quelle	In: Social Work, 55 (2010) 4, S.347-357 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-8046
Schlagwörter	Human Services; Research and Development; Intervention; Social Work; Cultural Context; Models; Validity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humanitäre Hilfe; Forschung und Entwicklung; Soziale Arbeit; Analogiemodell; Gültigkeit
Abstract	Federal, state, and local policymakers and funders have increasingly organized human service delivery functions around the selection and implementation of empirically supported interventions (ESIs), under the expectation that service delivery through such intervention frameworks results in improvements in cost-effectiveness and system performance. This article examines the validity of four premises undergirding the ESI approach: ESIs are effective, relevant to common client problems and needs, culturally appropriate, and replicable and sustainable in community-based settings. In reviewing available literature, the authors found insufficient support for the uniform application of an ESI approach to social work practice in the human service sector, particularly as applied within agency contexts serving ethnic minority clients. The authors recommend that greater attention be devoted to the development and dissemination of social work interventions that respond to needs that are broadly understood and shared across diverse cultural groups, have proven clinical efficacy, and can be translated successfully for use across different agency and cultural environments. Such attention to the research and development function of the social work profession is increasingly necessary as policymakers and human service system architects require reduced costs and improved performance for programs serving historically oppressed client populations. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10