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SOWO 740 Final Exam (EBP/Joining &
Engaging/MI/Measurement) Exam Questions
And Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass
Evidence-based practice - Answer✔-should be distinguished from evidence-based treatment
(EBT) and evidence-informed interventions/practice (EII or EIP). It's a spectrum.
-combines the best evidence with client preferences and clinician expertise to provide services
that are both empirically sound and individualized.
three components of EBP - Answer✔-best practices, validated by evidence
-client preferences, values, experience
-practitioner's individual expertise
evidence based treatment (EBT) - Answer✔-treatment with empirically supported techniques
that have "produced therapeutic change in controlled trials."
-Gold standard = randomized control trials (RCTs)
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-ex: CBT for depression, exposure therapy for anxiety.
-the most rigorously empirical approach, but also the most narrow and uniform
-can ignore diversity, client preferences, clinician's judgment, etc.
evidence informed interventions/practice (EIP) - Answer✔-takes a broader view that gives more
weight to client preferences and wishes.
-Includes research but favors individual/contextual factors.
-the most open and individualized approach, but also the least rigorously empirical.
-more "practitioner friendly"
main impetus for EBT - Answer✔-Managed care, health insurers, and clients wanted assurance
of effective treatment
-Clinicians wanted confidence
-Pressure to make social work scientific
-->all led to development of randomized control trials and manualized modalities.
Why is EBP needed? - Answer✔-Balances benefits of EBT without going too far. It responds to
the need for empirical evidence, but leaves room to tailor to clients and clinician
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-EBT by itself is problematic because:
--Controlled trials are too limited, sample sizes small, normed to white college students
--Client wishes may differ from what EBT prescribes
--Client needs are complex (multiple, overlapping diagnoses)
--Controlled trials ignore cultural contexts and conditions
--ignores what's already working in communities
-So, need EBP to integrate individual client factors and clinician judgement
-also, the argument that the essential problem with U.S. healthcare system is uniformed
practice and this would be resolved if health care professionals practiced in ways that are
consistent with research findings
what is evidence in EBP? - Answer✔-observational studies (surveys, cohort studies)
-experimental studies (RCTs, quasi-experimental, etc)
-clinical guidelines and systematic reviews that synthesize studies (meta-analyses)
-"empirical research, a diverse theoretical and clinical literature, effectiveness data that are
based on "real world outcomes in diverse communities"
where does EBP evidence come from? - Answer✔-academic journals
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SOWO 740 Final Exam (EBP/Joining &
Engaging/MI/Measurement) Exam Questions
And Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass
Evidence-based practice - Answer✔-should be distinguished from evidence-based treatment
(EBT) and evidence-informed interventions/practice (EII or EIP). It's a spectrum.
-combines the best evidence with client preferences and clinician expertise to provide services
that are both empirically sound and individualized.
three components of EBP - Answer✔-best practices, validated by evidence
-client preferences, values, experience
-practitioner's individual expertise
evidence based treatment (EBT) - Answer✔-treatment with empirically supported techniques
that have "produced therapeutic change in controlled trials."
-Gold standard = randomized control trials (RCTs)
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-ex: CBT for depression, exposure therapy for anxiety.
-the most rigorously empirical approach, but also the most narrow and uniform
-can ignore diversity, client preferences, clinician's judgment, etc.
evidence informed interventions/practice (EIP) - Answer✔-takes a broader view that gives more
weight to client preferences and wishes.
-Includes research but favors individual/contextual factors.
-the most open and individualized approach, but also the least rigorously empirical.
-more "practitioner friendly"
main impetus for EBT - Answer✔-Managed care, health insurers, and clients wanted assurance
of effective treatment
-Clinicians wanted confidence
-Pressure to make social work scientific
-->all led to development of randomized control trials and manualized modalities.
Why is EBP needed? - Answer✔-Balances benefits of EBT without going too far. It responds to
the need for empirical evidence, but leaves room to tailor to clients and clinician
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-EBT by itself is problematic because:
--Controlled trials are too limited, sample sizes small, normed to white college students
--Client wishes may differ from what EBT prescribes
--Client needs are complex (multiple, overlapping diagnoses)
--Controlled trials ignore cultural contexts and conditions
--ignores what's already working in communities
-So, need EBP to integrate individual client factors and clinician judgement
-also, the argument that the essential problem with U.S. healthcare system is uniformed
practice and this would be resolved if health care professionals practiced in ways that are
consistent with research findings
what is evidence in EBP? - Answer✔-observational studies (surveys, cohort studies)
-experimental studies (RCTs, quasi-experimental, etc)
-clinical guidelines and systematic reviews that synthesize studies (meta-analyses)
-"empirical research, a diverse theoretical and clinical literature, effectiveness data that are
based on "real world outcomes in diverse communities"
where does EBP evidence come from? - Answer✔-academic journals
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