Developing Practice Guidelines for Social Work Intervention: Issues, Methods, and Research Agenda

325 Pages·2016·1.17 MB·English

by  Aaron Rosen

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DEVELOPING
PRACTICE GUIDELINES
FOR SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTION
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DEVELOPING
PRACTICE GUIDELINES
FOR SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTION
ISSUES, METHODS, AND RESEARCH AGENTS
Aaron Rosen and Enola K. Proctor, Editors
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS • NEW YORK
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Developing practice guidelines for social work intervention : issues, methods, and research
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CONTENTS
Preface
VII
1. Practice Guidelines and the Challenge of Effective Practice
AARON ROSEN AND ENOLA K. PROCTOR 1
PART I Precursors ofGuidelines:Intervention Research
and Evidence-Based Practice
2. Intervention Research in Social Work: A Basis for Evidence-Based
Practice and Practice Guidelines
MARK W. FRASER 17
3. Evidence-Based Practice: Implications for Knowledge Development and
Use in Social Work
EILEEN GAMBRILL 37
4. Empirical Foundations for Practice Guidelines in Current Social Work
Knowledge
WILLIAM J. REID AND ANNE E. FORTUNE 59
PART II Practice Guidelines for Social Work:Need,Nature,
and Challenges
5. Clinical Guidelines and Evidence-Based Practice in Medicine,
Psychology, and Allied Professions
MATTHEW OWEN HOWARD AND JEFFREY M. JENSON 83
6. The Structure and Function of Social Work Practice Guidelines
ENOLA K. PROCTOR AND AARON ROSEN 108
7. Social Work Should Help Develop Interdisciplinary Evidence-Based
Practice Guidelines, Not Discipline-Specific Ones
BRUCE A. THYER 128
8. The Role of Diagnostic and Problem Classification in Formulating
Target-Based Practice Guidelines
STUART A. KIRK 140
9. Constructing Practice: Diagnoses, Problems, Targets, or Transactions?
MARK A. MATTAINI 156
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PART III Responsiveness ofPractice Guidelines to Diversity in
Client Populations and Practice Settings:The Idiographic Application
ofNormative Generalizations
10. Accounting for Variability in Client, Population, and Setting
Characteristics: Moderators of Intervention Effectiveness
LYNN VIDEKA 169
11. Service-Delivery Factors in the Development of Practice Guidelines
LUIS H. ZAYAS 193
12. Performance Standards and Quality Control:
Application of Practice Guidelines to Service Delivery
WILMA PEEBLES-WILKINS AND MARYANN AMODEO 207
PART IV Practitioner,Organizational,and Institutional Factors
in the Utilization ofPractice Guidelines
13. Practitioner Adoption and Implementation of Practice Guidelines and
Issues of Quality Control
EDWARD J. MULLEN AND WILLIAM F. BACON 223
14. Organizational and Institutional Factors in the Development of Practice
Knowledge and Practice Guidelines in Social Work
JEANNE C. MARSH 236
15. Social Work Practice Guidelines in an Interprofessional World:
Honoring New Ties That Bind
NINA L. ARONOFF AND DARLYNE BAILEY 253
PART V Conclusion
16. Advancing the Development of Social Work Practice Guidelines:
Directions for Research
ENOLA K. PROCTOR AND AARON ROSEN 271
Index
291
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PREFACE
W
econsider as axiomatic the view that social work practice must
be based on empirically tested and verified knowledge. Yet the
empirical basis of support for interventions is all but absent from
practitioners’ considerations as they make clinical decisions in routine practice.
The premise of this book is that social work must redouble its efforts to devise
ways to ensure that the best available empirically tested knowledge is used in
practice. We believe that one means to facilitate utilization of such knowl-
edge by practitioners is to incorporate it into readily available, accessible, and
professionally sanctioned practice guidelines. The need for empirically sup-
ported guidelines for intervention has become all the more pressing with the
advent of managed care and the associated demands throughout the practice
environment for greater accountability, effectiveness, and efficiency.
Practice guidelines for a variety of practice tasks are already in use by
service organizations and other professions, and they are increasingly enter-
ing the public discourse in social work. Convinced that social work needs to
develop research-based guidelines, we invited some of the key scholars in
social work practice to focus on the challenge of developing practice guide-
lines for social work. Accordingly, this book explores a number of critical
conceptual, methodological, and organizational issues that are related to the
development by social work of research-based practice guidelines for inter-
vention and their use in practice.
We first floated the ideas for this volume with our colleagues Eileen
Gambrill, of the University of California at Berkeley; Jeanne Marsh, of the
University of Chicago; and Lynn Videka, of the State University of New York
at Albany. We thank them for their enthusiastic support and acknowledge
their early influence on the planning of this project. On the basis of the
book’s conception, authors were selected and invited to prepare chapters,
first versions of which were presented at a working conference on social work
practice guidelines hosted in May 2000 by the George Warren Brown School
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of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. The conference pro-
vided a forum for presenting and discussing the ideas expressed here and for
shaping the agenda for advancing social work guidelines. The contributions
to this volume represent revised and updated versions of the works originally
presented at the conference, many of which had to be appreciably abbreviated
to meet the length limitations of this volume.
We are grateful to the authors, who viewed the project as timely and pro-
pitious, enthusiastically accepted our invitations, and devoted their scholarly
efforts to the various topics addressed here. We particularly appreciate the
authors’ gracious, thoughtful, and repeated responsiveness to our editorial
comments and those of the Columbia University Press reviewers. Their grace
and forbearance significantly enhanced our task as editors.
We are deeply grateful to Shanti Khinduka, dean of the George Warren
Brown School of Social Work, who encouraged and supported us in this
undertaking. He enthusiastically endorsed, sponsored, and hosted the initial
conference, committing the necessary resources for its success.
We express our appreciation to our faculty colleagues at the George
WarrenBrown School of Social Work for their support of the practice guide-
lines conference and, more significantly, for their conviction that social work
practice and education should be evidence based. This conviction was exem-
plified by a unanimous faculty decision in May 2000 to advance evidence-
based education throughout the M.S.W. curriculum.
We also acknowledge the financial support for the conference on practice
guidelines by the National Institute of Mental Health. We are particularly
grateful to the late Dr. Kenneth Lutterman and to Dr. Juan Ramos of the
institute for their advice, consultation, and facilitation of the conference.
George Warren Brown’s Center for Mental Health Services Research also
provided resources in support of the conference and for the preparation of
this volume.
We thank George Warren Brown’s doctoral program graduates Drs.
Chaie-Won Rhee, Catherine Striley, and Violet Horvath, who shared our
enthusiasm, stimulated our thinking, and contributed to the fruitfulness of
the conference and the focus of this book.
Last, but certainly not least, we express our gratitude to Cindy Betz, who
has made our task pleasant and manageable. She orchestrated the logistics of
the conference; organized and facilitated our communication with the authors;
cheerfully, patiently, and accurately tracked and compiled the revisions to the
chapters in this volume; and was instrumental in seeing it to publication.
Aaron Rosen and Enola K. Proctor
February 5, 2003
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CONTRIBUTORS
MARYANN AMODEO, PH.D., Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs, Boston University
NINA L. ARONOFF, PH.D., Assistant Professor, Social Work Program, Wheelock College
WILLIAM F. BACON, PH.D., Associate Vice President, Research and Evaluation,
Planned Parenthood of New York City, Inc.
DARLYNE BAILEY, PH.D., Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dean of the College
Teachers College, Columbia University
ANNE E. FORTUNE, PH.D., Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, School
of Social Welfare, State University of New York
MARK W. FRASER, PH.D., John A. Tate Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for
Research, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
EILEEN GAMBRILL, PH.D., Hutto Patterson Professor, School of Social Welfare, Uni-
versity of California, Berkeley
MATTHEW OWEN HOWARD, PH.D., Associate Professor, George Warren Brown
School of Social Work, Washington University
JEFFREY M. JENSON, PH.D., Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University
of Denver
STUART A. KIRK, PH.D., Professor, Marjorie Crump Chair, Department of Social
Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles
JEANNE C. MARSH, PH.D., Professor, School of Social Service Administration, The
University of Chicago
MARK A. MATTAINI, DSW, Associate Professor, Director, PhD Program in Social
Work, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois, Chicago
EDWARD J MULLEN, DSW, Wilma & Albert Musher Chair Professor, School of Social
Work, Columbia University
WILMA PEEBLES-WILKINS, PH.D., Dean and Professor, School of Social Work,
Boston University
ENOLA K. PROCTOR, PH.D., Frank J. Bruno Professor of Social Work Research, Asso-
ciate Dean for Research, Director, Center for Mental Health Services Research,
George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
WILLIAM J. REID, PH.D., Distinguished Professor, School of Social Welfare, State
University of New York, Albany.