Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: Examination for Social Work Education

Abstract

 Used in medical and social work, the evidencebased practice is a new paradigm began to be noticed impartant in recent years. This paradigm dwell upon an importance of evidence in order to make an effective decisions in social work practices. The main emphasis on the evidence-based practice include many methods to reduce the disconnect between the theory and the practice. The social workers benefit from the more experienced colleagues, academic staffs or their personal experiences during the ecision-make process. Unfortunately, these methods are not sufficient to make a valid decisions. The evidence-based skill is to gain in theundergraduate training and especially in the research methods. Besides this skill is planned to strengthen by the way of life-long learning. It this study the importance of evidence-based practise, possible benefits for social work education and its limitations, and used programme in the sample university is analyzed and investigated. Thus some suggestions were made for promoting the new paradigm both in the world and especially in our country.

Keywords

• Evidence- based practice,evidence-based social work,limitation of evidence-based practice,evidence-based practice in social work education.

SOSYAL HİZMETTE KANITA DAYALI UY GULAMALAR: SOSYAL HİZMET EĞİTİMİ AÇISINDAN İRDELENMESİ

Abstract

Kanıta dayalı uygulama tıp alanında kullanılan ve sosyal hizmet alanında son yıllarda önemi daha çok fark edilmeye başlayan yeni bir paradigmadır. Bu paradigm sosyal hizmet uygulamalarında daha etkili kararlar verebilmek için kanıtın önemi üzerinde durmaktadır. Kanıta dayalı uygulamanın temel vurgusu, alan ile uygulama arasındaki kopukluğu azaltabilecek yöntemleri içinde barındırmasıdır. Sosyal hizmet uzmanları karar verme süreçlerinde çoğunlukla daha tecrübeli meslektaşlarından, hocalarından ya da kişisel tecrübelerinden faydalanmaktadır. Bu yöntemlerin doğru kararlar verebilmek için yeterli olmadığı düşünülmektedir. Kanıta dayalı uygulama becerisinin lisans eğitiminde ve özellikle  araştırma metodlarının iyi bir şekilde öğretilmesi ile kazandırılması ve bu becerinin yaşam boyu öğrenme yolu ile pekiştirilmesi hedeflenmektedir. Bu çalışmada kanıta dayalı uygulamanın önemi, ortaya çıkma nedenleri, sosyal hizmet eğitimi için olası faydaları, sınırlılıkları ve eğitimde kullanımına ilişkin bir örnek üniversitenin programı incelenmiş ve gerek dünyada gerekse ülkemizde bu yeni paradigmanın yaygınlaştırılması amacıyla önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

Keywords

• Kanıta dayalı uygulama,sosyal hizmette kanıta dayalı uygulama,, kanıta dayalı uygulamanın sınırlılıkları,sosyal hizmet eğitiminde kanıta dayalı uygulamalar.

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