Written for students and practitioners of social work and social policy, this volume features selected writings on evidence-based practices and how these new perspectives re-evaluate and reshape "the character of welfare professionalism." Editors Otto, Polutta and Ziegler (social work and policy, U. of Bielefeld, Germany) have collected essays from noted proponents and opponents of evidence-based practices that debate the importance of measuring and implementing evidence, the actuarial "re-casting" of social work and the inequality between users and professionals. The second generation of evidence-based practices in social work, such as reflexive professionalism and causal impact, are also analyzed. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The quest to create an evidence-based social work practice is emerging strongly in different fields of social work and social policy. In this volume, internationally renowned proponents and opponents of this approach deliver profound analyses of the meaning and implications of an evidence-based perspective which clearly challenges the nature of the knowledge base of the established social work practice and reevaluates and reshapes the character of welfare professionalism.
