- Define evidence-based social work and distinguish it from evidence-based medicine;
- Become familiar with key concepts in evidence-based Social Work;
- Learn about a topic in community and social systems that we will
use as a case study to practice searching for best evidence;
- Apply key concepts to searching and evaluating the social work literature;
- Identify library databases that support best evidence research and practice;
- Learn strategies for effective retrieval and organization of evidence-based Social Work resources with RefWorks.
This tutorial
is based on the Public Health Information and Data Tutorial, modified for practice areas in the social work profession. There are no copyright restrictions on the contents of this tutorial and users are free to adapt or duplicate any portion.
Suggestions for improving this tutorial are encouraged. Please share your suggestions
with Sally
Haines. Last updated 7 May 2008.
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