Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Informed Practice. Allen Rubin

      

      Table of Contents

      1  COVER

      2  TITLE PAGE

      3  COPYRIGHT

      4  PREFACE Organization and Special Features Significant Additions to This Edition

      5  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      6  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

      7  ABOUT THE COMPANION WEBSITE

      8  PART 1: OVERVIEW OF EVIDENCE-INFORMED PRACTICE 1 Introduction to Evidence-Informed Practice (EIP) 1.1 Emergence of EIP 1.2 Defining EIP 1.3 Types of EIP Questions 1.4 EIP Practice Regarding Policy and Social Justice 1.5 EIP and Black Lives Matter 1.6 Developing an EIP Practice Process Outlook 1.7 EIP as a Client-Centered, Compassionate Means, Not an End unto Itself 1.8 EIP and Professional Ethics Key Chapter Concepts Additional Reading 2 Steps in the EIP Process 2.1 Step 1: Question Formulation 2.2 Step 2: Evidence Search 2.3 Step 3: Critically Appraising Studies and Reviews 2.4 Step 4: Selecting and Implementing the Intervention 2.5 Step 5: Monitor Client Progress 2.6 Feasibility Constraints 2.7 But What about the Dodo Bird Verdict? Key Chapter Concepts Additional Reading 3 Research Hierarchies: Which Types of Research Are Best for Which Questions? 3.1 More than One Type of Hierarchy for More than One Type of EIP Question 3.2 Qualitative and Quantitative Studies 3.3 Which Types of Research Designs Apply to Which Types of EIP Questions? Key Chapter Concepts Additional Reading

      9  PART 2: CRITICALLY APPRAISING STUDIES FOR EIP QUESTIONS ABOUT INTERVENTION EFFECTIVENESS 4 Criteria for Inferring Effectiveness: How Do We Know What Works? 4.1 Internal Validity 4.2 Measurement Issues 4.3 Statistical Chance 4.4 External Validity 4.5 Synopses of Fictitious Research Studies Key Chapter Concepts Exercise for Critically Appraising Published Articles Additional Reading 5 Critically Appraising Experiments 5.1 Classic Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design 5.2 Posttest-Only Control Group Design 5.3 Solomon Four-Group Design 5.4 Alternative Treatment Designs 5.5 Dismantling Designs 5.6 Placebo Control Group Designs 5.7 Experimental Demand and Experimenter Expectancies 5.8 Obtrusive Versus Unobtrusive Observation 5.9 Compensatory Equalization and Compensatory Rivalry 5.10 Resentful Demoralization 5.11 Treatment Diffusion 5.12 Treatment Fidelity 5.13 Practitioner Equivalence 5.14 Differential Attrition 5.15 Synopses of Research Studies Key Chapter Concepts Exercise for Critically Appraising Published Articles Additional Reading 6 Critically Appraising Quasi-Experiments: Nonequivalent Comparison Groups Designs 6.1 Nonequivalent Comparison Groups Designs 6.2 Additional Logical Arrangements to Control