NIMH SW EBP Meeting Summary from April 2007 October 24, 2007
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Dear Colleagues,
I’m attaching an email from Joan Levy Zlotnik regarding the report summarizing the special meeting that IASWR helped to convene at NIMH. I had the privilege of attending and have described some of what I learned in earlier posts. If you have comments on the report, please send them to Joan.
Colleagues: At long last, attached please find the final draft report from the APRIL 12 EBP meeting. The report was put together by IASWR and will be distributed and disseminated by IASWR after it is copy-edited and graphically designed. I wanted to get to you this final draft in advance of the CSWE Annual Program Meeting as I know that several of us will be involved in EBP related sessions and meetings at the APM. If there were publications, e.g. in the September 2007 special issue of Research on Social Work Practice that covered some similar content to what was presented at the April symposium – the reader will be sent to those articles – If you have any additional comments before this is finalized, please let me know.A section on Acknowledgements will be added. Joan Joan Levy Zlotnik, PhD, ACSWExecutive DirectorInstitute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
Prevention Action, A New International Resource Re Prevention Research October 23, 2007
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http://www.preventionaction.org/about
I came across this website and it has some accessible reviews of some very interesting articles about the effectiveness of prevention programs for social (and other conditions). It’s worth a look.
National Academy of Sciences Review of PTSD Treatment October 23, 2007
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The url below will take you to a pdf summarizing the work of the NAS’s Institute of Medicine’s recent review of 180 studies of treatment’s of PTSD. The brief focuses on findings and 8 recommendations for future work.
As an aside–social work does not have an institute within the NAS (unlike our peers in education who have a National Academy of Education); it’s long past time that we did and there have been some modest efforts by the National Association of Deans and Directors (of social work) to identify a group of senior social work scholars who could be the core of a National Academy of Social Work or, paralleling, nursing, the American Academy of Nursing) that can obtain external support to review the scientific basis for various social work practices.
http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/47/391/PTSD%20Report%20Brief%20FINAL2.pdf
GAO Study on Abuse in “Boot Camp” October 11, 2007
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Usually when we review the “evidence” about programs or interventions, we are in the position of concluding “insufficient” evidence to suggest that an intervention is efficacious or effective, however, in some situations, we need to guard against “help” that is harmful. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today citing thousands of abuse of youth in Residential Treatment Programs – specifically “Boot Camp” or programs categorized as “wilderness therapy,” intense military-style discipline and other methods. This industry is a largely unregulated cottage industry where youth have been warehoused and abused. Between 1990 and 2004, the GAO found that at least 10 deaths of youth were attributed to poor management and poorly trained staff. You can read more about this in the Washington Post today at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/10/AR2007101000825.html?sub=AR
OR – better yet, you can download the full report from
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08146t.pdf
