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Evidence-based Practice and Decision Analysis in Social Work

An Implementation Model

University of Sussex, England, s.a.webb{at}sussex.ac.uk

• Summary: This article on evidence-based practice and decision analysis develops an implementation model for social work. Thus far no detailed attempt has been made to formulate a systematic implementation framework for evidence-based practice in social work.

• Findings: The social and cultural, the professional and practice-based, and the educational and training contexts are highlighted. The emergence of evidence-based practice is placed within the context of risk society and the development of new expert systems that contribute to a radical re-shaping of social work practice. In the inevitable shift towards an actuarial practice, direct and therapeutic involvement with service users becomes less significant for social work. Following the work of Trinder (2000) two key approaches to evidence-based practice are discussed: the experimental and pragmatic perspectives.

• Application: By drawing on the latter, a systems approach is developed via nine key related structures which constitute an implementation framework for evidence-based practice.

Key Words: actuarial practice • decision analysis • evidence-based practice • expert systems • risk

Journal of Social Work, Vol. 2, No. 1, 45-63 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/146801730200200104


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