EBP Exchange - UMB School of Social Work

This material from the UK is an example of practice guidelines for responding to Dementia.  Some schools are focusing their teaching of practice around the use of practice guidelines, which are a key element in evidence based practice, especially when there is not a cohesive manualized approach to a treatment but there is a sense of best practice.  I offer this as just an example of practice guidelines for a complex problem.

dementia-guideline.pdf

One of our alumni, Rich Friedman, sent news of a series of research briefs emanating from the MacArthur foundation’s Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, http://www.adjj.org/content/page.php?cat_id=2&content_id=28

Given the paucity of research on effective services for juveniles, the materials do point, at least, to some intervention points and possibilities. I’ve posted one of the issue briefs that discusses authoratative parenting style and it’s possible role in limiting pathways to juvenile offending and increasing desistance.

This is a report from the UK that maps out the literature on parental mental health and families in a way that they have not done, before, and that I have not seen before. It is, largely, a methodological piece to show ways to clarify the sources of evidence that are used to reflect on a question, and the use of mapping to identify needed areas for further research. It’s worth looking at, if you are interested in this topic but, moreso, if you are interested in the process of preparing systematic reviews.

By the way, I found this in the grey literature section of a website which is the second best one I know (next to ours), http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip/

social-care-mh-families-map-2006.pdf