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Development and Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment …
Objective: This report describes the development and preliminary findings regarding the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of a scale that has been developed to assess practitioners’ perceived familiarity with, attitudes about, and implementation of the phases of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: After a panel of national experts on EBP supported the scale’s content validit…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 629-640
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Gregory Research Beliefs Scale: Factor Structure and Internal Consistency
Objective: This study evaluates the factor structure and internal consistency of the Gregory Research Beliefs Scale (GRBS). Method: Data were collected from subject matter experts, a pilot study, an online sample, and a classroom sample. Psychometric analyses were conducted after combining the online and classroom samples. Results: An a priori four-factor model was not supported via confirmator…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 641-650
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A Review of Observational Pain Scales in Nonverbal Elderly With Cognitive Imp…
Objective: Pain assessment for nonverbal older adults with cognitive impairments or dementia presents many challenges, and it is important to determine which scales are most useful in assessing pain among this population. Method: In this review 11 observational scales for assessment of pain in older adults with dementia or cognitive impairments are evaluated in four areas: pain indicators, reli…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 651-664
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What Types of Designs are We Using in Social Work Research and Evaluation?
This article addresses a void in the literature about social work research and evaluation (R&E) designs, in particular related to the quality of its published work. Data were collected by reviewing three empirically oriented journals, Research on Social Work Practice, Journal of Social Service Research, and Social Work Research over three publication years 2005, 2006, and 2007. A total of N = 3…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 665-673
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Treatment Fidelity in Social Work Intervention Research: A Review of Publishe…
Objectives: This study investigated treatment fidelity in social work research. Method: The authors systematically reviewed all articles published in five prominent social work journals over a 5- year period. Sixty-three outcome studies were identified and reviewed for how well treatment fidelity was monitored using eight review criteria. Results: Seventy-one percent of reviewed studies defined…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 674-681
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How to Critically Evaluate Case Studies in Social Work
The purpose of this article is to develop guidelines to assist practitioners and researchers in evaluating and developing rigorous case studies. The main concern in evaluating a case study is to accurately assess its quality and ultimately to offer clients social work interventions informed by the best available evidence. To assess the quality of a case study, we propose criteria, including tra…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 682-689
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Evidence-Based Clearinghouses in Social Work
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to describe several evidence-based clearinghouses focused on social work and related intervention outcomes, placing them in the context of how such clearinghouses can contribute to research dissemination to foster effective, evidence-based practice. Method: The study employed an analysis of data provided in clearinghouse Web sites and internal document…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 690-700
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Advances in Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Problem Behavior
Recent advances in the field of prevention have led to a deeper understanding of the causes of adolescent problem behavior and to the identification of efficacious strategies to prevent delinquency, drug use, and other antisocial conduct. This 2009 Aaron Rosen lecture to members of the Society for Social Work and Research traces the evolution of prevention approaches in the United States. A pub…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6. November 2010.pp. 701-713
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From Opinion-Based to Evidence-Based Social Work: The Swedish Case
This article presents an account of Sweden’s Institute for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice (IMS), located in Stockholm, Sweden. The article places IMS in the context of making Swedish social care services less opinion-based and more evidence-based. The institute is an example of how policy-driven processes promote the use of evidence-based practices in this European nation. The article incl…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6. November 2010 .pp. 714-722
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Toward Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in Child Welfare
Drawing on the authors’ experience in the international Campbell Collaboration, this essay presents a principled and pragmatic approach to evidence-informed decisions about child welfare. This approach takes into account the growing body of empirical evidence on the reliability and validity of various methods of research synthesis. It also considers wide variations in the cultural, economic, an…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 723-725
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Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia and their Relationship to the Ja…
The Working Holiday is a relatively new but rapidly growing form of transnational mobility. In Australia, Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) form the largest group of Japanese temporary migrants, and their numbers have been increasing. In this paper, I will discuss the experience of returned WHMs in the light of Japanese labour practice. For my interlocutors, the motivations for taking a Working Hol…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 267 - 28
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Private Governance of Climate Change in Hong Kong: An Analysis of Drivers and…
This study examines how corporate governance of climate change is developing in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong), Asia's leading financial centre. It situates corporate actions within the broader framework of urban multi-stakeholder climate governance. In the absence of international obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and government regulation to reduce greenhouse gas (…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 287 - 30
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South Korea's Meandering Path to Globalisation in the Late Twentieth Century
Globalisation, or segyehwa1 in Korean, has recently been the central theme in discussions of South Korean political economy, particularly in strategic policy-making discourses since the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, which was triggered by the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. The serious nature of the South Korean currency meltdown in 1997 resulted at first glance in a striking trans…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010, pages 309 - 327
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Envisioning Seoul as a World City: The Cultural Politics of the Hong-dae Cult…
This article explores how the vision of a world city influences local cultural politics, by looking at an attempt to construct a cultural quarter in Seoul, South Korea. The Hong-dae area of Seoul has a reputation as a vibrant place of urban amenities, emerging cultural forms, and neighbourhoods of cultural workers and artists. In 2003, the city government announced a policy to create a Cultural…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 329 - 34
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Portrayals of Non-North Koreans in North Korean Textbooks and the Formation o…
This article examines the portrayal of non-North Koreans in North Korean textbooks to assess the influences on the formation of North Korean identity, and how such identity formation is important in Kim Jeong-il's retention of power. This study not only looks closely at textual representations; it also examines how political and ideological changes in North Korea had a critical influence on the…
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- Volume 34, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 349 - 36
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Implementing the Regulation on Places of Worship in Indonesia: New Problems, …
This article examines the local implementation of the national Joint Regulation 2006 on places of worship in Indonesia. It focuses on the case study of the Protestant Christian Batak Congregation, which became one of the first churches to successfully challenge the authority of a local leader to cancel its permit to build a church. I begin by exploring the history of the regulation of permits f…
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 403 - 419
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The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept of Satoyama and…
The term satoyama gained currency in Japan in postwar decades as a term that describes a sphere of “encultured” nature that has traditionally existed on the periphery of rural settlements, but which is increasingly threatened by industrialisation, urban development, rural depopulation and changing lifestyles. Satoyama is appealing as a concept because it represents a sphere in which nature and …
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 421 - 441
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Representations of the Masculine in Tagame Gengoroh's Ero SM Manga
Tagame Gengoroh (1964-) is a Japanese manga writer who specialises in erotic gay male SM themed comics. Though prolific and having a substantial cult following in his native Japan, parts of the US and Europe, his work has not received the academic attention it deserves. This essay explores how Tagame constructs masculinity in three stories set in the context of wartime Japan. By drawing on seve…
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 443 - 465
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The Mystery of Capital: Eurasian Entrepreneurs' Socio-Cultural Strategies for…
Unlike economic capital, which is visible and easy to calculate, social capital is intangible and difficult to assess. Although both types of capital are crucial in determining social relations and social behaviour, little solid research has been done on the latter. This paper attempts to use the rags-to-riches story of Sir Robert Ho Tung, a first-generation Hong Kong Eurasian entrepreneur who …
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 467 - 487
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Exploring the Conditions for Cooperative Energy Governance: A Comparative Stu…
A central but often unasked question in political and sociological scholarship concerns the conditions that precipitate cooperation on large-scale transnational energy projects, especially among “developing” and “emerging” economies. Using the example of two multi-billion dollar pipeline systems - the Trans-ASEAN Natural Gas Pipeline (TAGP) Network in Southeast Asia and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC…
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- Volume 34, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 489 - 511
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