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Ethical Aspects of Outcome Studies in Social, Behavioral, and Educational Interventions

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The domain of outcome research is enormous and the consequences weighty. Ethical, practical, and political goals of evaluation have insured a multitude of outcome studies concerning social, behavioral, and educational interventions as well as critiques thereof and descriptions of how to conduct related research. We have a rich literature guiding the design, conduct, reporting, and dissemination of outcome studies as well as a rich literature showing that such studies are often flawed and often hype inflated claims of knowledge (or ignorance). Uncertainties are often ignored resulting in harm to clients. I suggest that a focus on avoidable ignorance and its harmful consequences as well as taking advantage of Grice’s maxims of discourse guided by ethical obligations of professionals to do more good than harm will increase the percentage of sound outcome studies and accurate reporting.

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Research on Social Work Practice

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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English

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10497315

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Vol. 21 no. 6, November 2011,pp. 654-663

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Evaluation
ethics
Ethical Aspects of Outcome Studies
Ignorance

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