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Design-based practice: a new perspective for social work.
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PMID:  22308666     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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Evidence-based practice (EBP) has emerged as an alternative to traditional social work practice and has ignited a new round in the decades-old debate about the relationship between knowledge and practice in the field. This article identifies several limitations inherent in the EBP perspective and argues that it would be unfortunate if EBP were to become the new paradigm for social work practice and education. It also presents a new perspective for social work called design-based practice (DBP), which is based on the work of Herbert Simon and Mary Parker Follett, and compares this perspective with EBP and authority-based practice. DBP rests on the belief that knowledge is derived from experience and interactions between practitioners and clients and that professional practice should be primarily concerned with "how things ought to be."
Authors:
Burton J Cohen
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Social work     Volume:  56     ISSN:  0037-8046     ISO Abbreviation:  Soc Work     Publication Date:  2011 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-02-07     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  2984852R     Medline TA:  Soc Work     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  337-46     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA. bucohen@sp2.upenn.edu
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