TY - JOUR
T1 - Implementing Evidence-Based Practice
T2 - Practitioner Assessment of an Agency-Based Training Program
AU - Bledsoe-Mansori, Sarah E.
AU - Manuel, Jennifer I.
AU - Bellamy, Jennifer L.
AU - Fang, Lin
AU - Dinata, Erna
AU - Mullen, Edward J.
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - Responding to the call for evidence-based practice (EBP) in social work, the authors conducted a multiphase exploratory study to test the acceptability of a training-based collaborative agency-university partnership strategy supporting EBP. The Bringing Evidence for Social Work Training (BEST) study includes an agency training component consisting of 10 modules designed to support the implementation of EBP in social agencies. Qualitative data from post-training participant focus groups were analyzed in order to describe practitioner perceptions of the 10 training modules and trainer experiences of implementation. Based on the findings from this study the authors suggest that the BEST training was generally acceptable to agency team members, but not sufficient to sustain the use of EBP in practice.
AB - Responding to the call for evidence-based practice (EBP) in social work, the authors conducted a multiphase exploratory study to test the acceptability of a training-based collaborative agency-university partnership strategy supporting EBP. The Bringing Evidence for Social Work Training (BEST) study includes an agency training component consisting of 10 modules designed to support the implementation of EBP in social agencies. Qualitative data from post-training participant focus groups were analyzed in order to describe practitioner perceptions of the 10 training modules and trainer experiences of implementation. Based on the findings from this study the authors suggest that the BEST training was generally acceptable to agency team members, but not sufficient to sustain the use of EBP in practice.
KW - agency-university partnerships
KW - empirically supported interventions
KW - Evidence-based practice
KW - training
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84876313504
U2 - 10.1080/15433714.2011.581545
DO - 10.1080/15433714.2011.581545
M3 - Article
C2 - 23581802
AN - SCOPUS:84876313504
SN - 1543-3714
VL - 10
SP - 73
EP - 90
JO - Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work
JF - Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work
IS - 2
ER -