Making Social Work Practice More Scientific

Abstract

This chapter examines the challenge of making social work practice more scientific. Throughout the social work profession's history, there has been a gap between research and practice. Efforts to try to bridge that gap have had little success in the face of agency realities and epistemological battles. Recommendations are made for preventing the erosion of evidentiary standards and thus reducing the chances that EBP will become a meaningless shibboleth. Keywords: evidence-based practice; scientific practice; research utilization; epistemological battles; research-practice gap; research hierarchy; evidentiary standards

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