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Evidence-Based Practice For Youth In Supervised Out- Of-Home Care: A Framework For Development, Definition, And Evaluation, Richard P. Barth, Johanna K.P. Greeson, Sarah R. Zlotnik, Laura K. Chintapalli
Evidence-Based Practice For Youth In Supervised Out- Of-Home Care: A Framework For Development, Definition, And Evaluation, Richard P. Barth, Johanna K.P. Greeson, Sarah R. Zlotnik, Laura K. Chintapalli
Johanna K.P. Greeson, PhD, MSS, MLSP
Adolescents comprise more than half of the children in child welfare supervised out-of-home care. This article considers the evidence-base for an array of services to adolescents in out-of-home care and evaluates the existing research base for each program. This review advances a framework for considering the critical need to develop, define, and evaluate the essential elements of out-of-home care services for older foster youth. Policy, program, and evaluation recommendations are forwarded.
Do Some Interventions Work Better Than Others? A Review Of Comparative Social Work Experiments, William Reid, Bonnie Kenaley, Julanne Colvin
Do Some Interventions Work Better Than Others? A Review Of Comparative Social Work Experiments, William Reid, Bonnie Kenaley, Julanne Colvin
Bonnie Kenaley
Knowledge of which interventions are more efficacious than others for given problems is central to evidencebased practice. Attempts to build this knowledge have been confined largely to reviews and meta-analyses of experiments comparing methods of psychotherapy. This literature has suggested that different methods tend to have equivalent results. The authors reviewed all experiments comparing 39 social work programs that were published between 1990 and 2001. Contrary to findings for psychotherapy experiments, a large majority of the social work comparisons showed differential effects. The role of common factors appeared to be diminished by departures of most the social work programs from …