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Behavioral family therapy
- Editor:
- THYER Bruce A.
- Publisher:
- Charles C. Thomas
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 265p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Springfield, IL
Set of papers by practice researchers. Includes chapters on behavioural family therapy work with: child abuse and neglect; families of adolescents; men who batter; uncooperative alcohol abusers; serious juvenile offenders; and couple treatment of sexual dysfunction.
Social work in mental health: an evidence-based approach
- Editors:
- THYER Bruce A., WODARSKI John S., (eds.)
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 592p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Guide to the delivery of evidence-based care. Covering a wide spectrum of mental health disorders, the editors have brought together noted experts to provide the most current, empirically supported techniques in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders as classified by the DSM-IV-TR. Examples of evidence-based interventions guide the reader through the process and provide insight into the philosophy as well as the scientific basis underlying each technique and intervention presented. Chapters begin with learning objectives that alert you to the main ideas covered and conclude with provocative study questions that are designed to test your understanding while providing an opportunity for review and reinforcement of the key concepts covered.
International perspectives on evidence-based practice in social work
- Editors:
- THYER Bruce, KAZI Mansoor A.F.
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 237p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Service users and social care practitioners are often marginalised in the production of research, but a system for assessing the quality of social care knowledge will need a more subtle and inclusive approach than a simple hierarchy in which findings from experimental studies take precedence. Social services are under pressure from Government and the public to demonstrate the effectiveness of what they do. If the search for useable and relevant measures of effectiveness is to succeed, practitioners, managers, and policymakers must have an understanding of the underlying social science concepts such as Evidence-based practice (EBP).
A program guide to doctoral study in social work
- Editors:
- THYER Bruce, ARNOLD Tara Guest
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education,|Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Educatio
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 176p.
- Place of publication:
- Alexandria, VA
Directory of North American programmes available. Doctoral study is viewed as a systematic study of social policy and social work by those workers in the sector of social policy, social services and work who graduated in related disciplines, who have experience with activities in this sector, as well as aptitudes for research, but who have not had the possibility to acquire specialized training for their highly specialized professional work.
Readings in evidence-based social work: syntheses of the intervention knowledge base
- Editors:
- VAUGHAN Michael G., HOWARD Matthew O., THYER Bruce A., (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 336p.
- Place of publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA
The editor Bruce Thyer, noted that there is a great need within schools of social work to incorporate the latest research on evidence based practice within the curriculum. In fact, courses that are specifically focused on evidence based practice are also being offered. This reader synthesizes the current knowledge, add editorial commentary and questions, and present state-of-the-art material