Abstract
Evidence-informed practice asks practitioners and policy-makers to integrate current best evidence with client context in
order to provide meaningful and potentially effective services across a range of presenting problems. Done correctly, systematic
reviews are a crucial part of this process, providing social workers and other helping professionals with transparent, rigorous,
and informative syntheses of research in a given area. This paper makes clear the need for systematic reviews in social work,
briefly explains what systematic reviews are and how they are made, and describes the role of the Campbell Collaboration in
creating a world library of systematic reviews.
order to provide meaningful and potentially effective services across a range of presenting problems. Done correctly, systematic
reviews are a crucial part of this process, providing social workers and other helping professionals with transparent, rigorous,
and informative syntheses of research in a given area. This paper makes clear the need for systematic reviews in social work,
briefly explains what systematic reviews are and how they are made, and describes the role of the Campbell Collaboration in
creating a world library of systematic reviews.
- Content Type Journal Article
- DOI 10.1007/s10615-010-0307-0
- Authors
- Aron Shlonsky, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada
- Eamonn Noonan, Campbell Collaboration, PO Box 7004, St Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway
- Julia H. Littell, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, Lower Merion Twp, PA USA
- Paul Montgomery, Centre for Evidence Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Journal Clinical Social Work Journal
- Online ISSN 1573-3343
- Print ISSN 0091-1674