• 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 aging that we will use for 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. A pre-tutorial version of Evidence-Based Social Work is available at http://www.lib.umich.edu/socwork/rescue/ebsw.html

Suggestions for improving this tutorial are encouraged. Please share your suggestions with Sally Haines. Last updated 12 May 2008.