Dig Deeper resources for the Organisational Support for Evidence Based Practice Action Pack
This page offers an opportunity to 'dig deeper' and access further information on a particular topic identified in the Action Pack. It acts as 'further reading' to our REAL Organisational Support for Evidence Based Practice Action Pack . Where possible we offer links to full texts. If the links to the full texts are not available we give full references for you to obtain the text elsewhere. Addresses of other useful websites can also be found here. We will add to and regularly update this page.
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What is evidence in social care? - the debate
Learning organisations and how they work
Critical thinking
Working in Teams
Focus groups
Lewis J. The Contribution of Research Findings to Practice Change. Managing Community Care: Building knowledge for integrated care. Vol 10. Issue 1. February 2002.
Summary
The author discusses the relationship between knowledge and practice, and puts the case for 'knowledge based change'.
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REAL Evidence Based Practice Development: A Partnership Approach.
Managing Community Care: Building Knowledge for Integrated Care. Volume 10. Issue 6. December 2002. Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Barratt M.
Summary This article examines what has been learnt about practice-academic partnership from two research in practice projects aimed at supporting the development of evidence based practice in social care.
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What is Knowledge in Social Care?
Managing Community Care: Building knowledge for integrated care. Volume 10. Issue 1. February 2002. Edwards A.
Summary.
This article reports on issues arising from consultations with key stakeholders about the way the new Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) should undertake its work. It proposes a new, 'inclusive' approach to knowledge in social care.
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Organisational support for evidence based practice within children and family social work: a collaborative study.
Child & Family Social Work - soon to be published (2003).
Barratt M.
Summary.
This paper reports on how the views of more than 100 professional staff involved with the provision of services to children and families have been gathered to offer insight into how evidence based practice can be supported or frustrated in social care organisations.
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Social Work Research: the state of art (or science) Child & Family Social Work. 1 (4): 233-242 (1996) Trinder L.
Summary
This paper provides a critical review of current trends within social work research methodology. By exploring the linkages between methodology, social work and wider social and political changes, the paper argues that research is an intensely political rather than a neutral activity.
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Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work.
British Journal of Social Work. Volume 13. No 1. February 2001 Webb SA. Summary
This paper gives a particular view on evidence based practice in social work. It critically examines various underlying presuppositions and assumptions entailed in evidence based practice and draws out their implications for social work.
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or you may sign in, subscribe or purchase the article in BJSW Online. http://bjsw.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/57? : (new window)
Evidence-Based Practice: Counterarguments to Objections,
2002, Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 12, No. 3, 452-476 Gibbs L & Gambrill E. Summary
The authors describe and offer counter arguments to objections to evidence based practice, using the article above as an example. They suggest that reviewing objections to evidence based practice may help us to increase our understanding of the barriers to using practice-related research findings in the helping professions.
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research in practice : Online links - Evidence based initiatives
Our online links page gives direct access to other websites which we think are useful for evidence based practice. Our purpose is to provide a selective rather than comprehensive set of links in order to guide you through the often bewilderingly wide range of on-line resources. Most of the links therefore relate primarily to the research and policy environment underpinning social care practice with children and families.
Each link has been provided with a brief descriptor.
Useful search engines:
Enter the information you want into a search box. The search engine, such as those listed above, uses these words to retrieve items that contain your words.
Or you can browse - following hyperlinks to move from page to page with the aim of chancing upon the information you want. Of course you can browse the links on any pages on the Web at random to find your own trail through the labyrinth, but some web sites offer browsing via a structured trail of links organised under subject headings.
Other learning organisations:
http://www.alba.edu.gr/OKLC2002/Proceedings
The Research Center for Knowledge Management at ALBA (Athens Laboratory of Business Administration) in Greece, was created in 2000. The Research Center for Knowledge Management systematically investigates the ways in which companies create and utilize knowledge, learn, and change in order to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage.
This is a Critical Thinking Skills Project website from the University of York which helps staff help students develop critical thinking skills within their study discipline.
http://www2.york.ac.uk/inst/ctipsych/web/CTI/Critthink.html : (new window)
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. New York: Free Press.
Gilovich, T. (1991).
Summary
Gilovich discusses the processes through which we become convinced of the validity of questionable or false beliefs.
Available to buy from amazon.co.uk : (new window)
REAL Evidence Based Practice in Teams Action Pack . research in practice
This Action Pack is designed to help teams and their leaders build on current learning about what can, in practice, help teams become more research-minded in their work with children and families. It has developed from four years' work with teams in nine research in practice Partner agencies, and has been tested within Partner agencies over two years. It is being extensively rewritten and the final publication 'REAL EBP - a handbook for teams' will be launched in October 2003.
Aston Centre for Health Services Organisation Research
http://research.abs.aston.ac.uk/achsor/achsor.html : (new window)
This research programme based at Aston University, Birmingham includes people management and NHS trust performance, team work in health care, top management team functioning and leadership, stress and stress management among NHS staff, innovation in NHS services, organisational change and staff involvement in decision-making.
Click on the headings below for three of their most relevant guides.
Team Working and Effectiveness in Health Care: (new window) (in PDF format 494k)
Developing Team Working In Health Care: A Guide for Managers: (new window) (in PDF format 571k)
Developing Team Working in Health Care: A Guide for Team Members: (new window) (in PDF format 371k)
The NASA Headquarters Library
Yes - The NASA HQ Library in the USA has links to articles and resources for teams, teamwork and leadership
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/ppm/ppm5.htm: (new window)
Teams and Teamwork
This website includes extensive selected links about teams, teamwork and team building exercises
http://www.reviewing.co.uk/toolkit/teams-and-teamwork.htm: (new window)
Focus Groups by Dr Anita Gibbs in Social Research Update 19 This article summarises a review of focus group methodology conducted for the Department of Social Medicine at Bristol University in March 1997.
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU19.html: (new window)
Social Research Update is published quarterly by the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH, England. Subscriptions for the hardcopy version are free to researchers with addresses in the UK. Apply to SRU subscriptions: email sru@soc.surrey.ac.uk
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