Recommendations

1
Recommendations

• Complete bibliography
• Focus on ethical issues related to EBP
• Improve research methods focusing on the students
  being consumers of research
• Learn to use technology to deliver services

2
Recommendations

• Teach the EBP process in the research class and
  EBPs in practice courses (most agreed upon point)
• Write research in practitioner-friendly ways
• Use mixed methods in EBP
• Include IA, IF, NASW, CSWE, SSWR, IASW in
  discussions to broaden EBP to an international
  sphere

3
Recommendations

• Each student should learn 1 or 2 manualized
  treatments in conjunction with instruction
• Integrate research more throughout the curriculum
• Consider the impact of racism, sexism, and social
  injustice in EBP

4
Recommendations

• Offer CEU credits in EBP and EBPs for
  practitioners
• Look at strategies to evaluate EBP and public
  policy
• Find out how to attain research funds to use EBP
  in evaluation

5
Issues

• Move away from the medical model and develop
  social work criteria
• Do we need a common definition before we move
  ahead?
• How do we incorporate EBP into case management?
• How do we deal with perceived hierarchies of
  research on EBPs?