Exam 4: Evidence-Based Practice

According to the text, which of the following are good sources of evidence for the social worker?

When searching for evidence, a good first step is determining which databases to review.

According to the text, which of the following is most true about studies of evidence?

One of the common factors in treatment is the relationship between the practitioner and the client.

Which of the following levels of evidence is most likely to minimize the bias of the researcher who is reviewing the literature on evidence?

What is one of the five steps in the implementation of evidence-based practice?

The process of seeking evidence for the evidence-based social worker should start with the review of a single article that reports appropriate evidence.

Some systematic reviews have found a specific treatment (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy) to be more effective than another treatment (e.g., psychodynamic therapy) in the treatment of depression, but the size of these differences has been found to be rather small. What conclusion does this finding support?

A major disadvantage of making a practice decision using a single article of evidence on client outcome is that the outcomes of different research studies are rather diverse.

It would be appropriate for an evidence-based social worker to say "My 20 years of clinical experience is my evidence."

If you find that the effect size for the outcome of your treatment for depression using the cognitive behavior model of treatment is higher than the effect size when using the psychodynamic model, you can conclude that psychodynamic treatment was superior to the cognitive behavioral model.

The Dodo Bird Verdict suggests that ______.

As an evidence-based practitioner, what would you do if you were conducting a search for evidence and you found one research study that supported the treatment used by your agency, and one study that failed to support this treatment? Would you, for example, employ the treatment favored by your agency and use the one study as your evidence or would you continue your search? How much evidence would you seek before you believe you had sufficiently reviewed the literature?

Imagine you are deciding on an intervention for a client, which three considerations would portray evidence-based practice? Identify three considerations which would portray evidence-based practice.

One of the advantages of the meta-analysis is that it employs a protocol that guides the search for evidence.

Scientific evidence refers to ______.

According to the text, which of the following statements about bona fide treatments is true? It is the position of the author of this book that ______.

Which of the following is a good evidence-based research question?

Give a definition of a bona fide treatment. Identify a bona fide treatment for which you are familiar.

When determining which treatment to offer a client, the evidence-based practitioner should consider the evidence on effective treatments for the outcomes being sought for the ______.