conducting EBP
a term suggesting that the practitioner is to draw on the strongest documented information to guide practice-related judgments and decisions.
what is evidence-based practice
a process used by social workers to make judgments regarding the accuracy and applicability of information about the client, the client’s condition, intervention alternatives, and evidence of client change.
what is critical thinking
A true or false statement, Intervention is a planned change.
This phrase emphasizes the importance of understanding a client’s concerns from their own subjective perspective before initiating planned change
What is “start where the client is”?
Family members, friends, and community members who provide emotional and practical assistance during the change process are known as this.
What is “the client’s support system”?
to the extent possible, social workers should strive to base their practice on the best ___what____ available
what is evidence
an orderly and coherent arrangement of relevant and trustworthy information related to a specific topic.
what is knowledge
a client’s total existence, experience, and circumstances that are the focus of the planned change effort
what is client situation
To effectively address a client’s concerns, a social worker should focus on aspects of the situation that the client and worker can do this to.
What is “control and influence”?
Organizations such as schools, social service agencies, and healthcare providers that impact the client’s change process fall under this category
What are “institutional stakeholders”?
term used to describe when a social worker seeks out and makes use of theory and research data that will expand his or her understanding of the practice situation. Two sets of data are utilized; one focuses on the client’s specific condition or problem, and the other focuses on the client group or population being served
what is evidence-based assessment
the integration of observations and knowledge that has a truly lasting quality.
what is wisdom
Reality demands that the _______ and _______ _______ narrow their focus and zero-in on those aspects of the situation that can be influenced and changed.
what is client and what is social worker
The way a client understands and experiences their own situation may differ from how professionals and others view it, making this factor crucial in intervention planning
What is “the client’s subjective interpretation”?
This phase of the planned change process involves carrying out the intervention based on the developed plan.
What is “taking action”?
This orientation strengthens the scientific basis of practice and is consistent with the __________?
what is NASW Code of Ethics
our tendency to seek knowledge until we find what supports our preferred ideas, positions, and personal agenda is considered __what__?
what is self-deception
The ___ alone must create and bring about the desired change.
what is the client
Depending on the client’s concerns and goals, a social worker may intervene at these different levels, including individual, family, organization, or community.
What are “multiple levels of intervention”?
Before engaging a client in planning and contracting for change, a social worker must first ensure the client recognizes the need for change through this phase.
What is “data collection and assessment”?
a response to the obligation of social workers to evaluate and document the effect or impact of their intervention.
what is evidence-based evaluation
'The more fragile our self-esteem, the more likely we are to be threatened by new ideas, and the more likely we are to uncritically accept ideas proposed by others, especially the ideas that we want to believe' is a dynamic of what kind of thinking?
what is uncritical thinking
Family, Peer group, neighbors, law enforcements, Community attitudes, economic conditions and social forces are part of our clients ____ to _____ life
what is day to day
Effective social work interventions should aim to do this to a client’s strengths while simultaneously removing barriers to change
What are “restore, guide, and build on”?
Because different phases of the change process require different approaches, a technique effective in one phase may be this in another phase.
What is “ineffective or counterproductive”?