Practitioner's guide to using research for evidence-based practice

"Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice gives essential and practical guidance on how to integrate research appraisal into evidence-based practice endeavors to ensure best client care. This practitioner-oriented book provides readers across the helping professions with the step-by-step skills they need to effectively appraise and use research as part of the evidence-based practice process. Readers will have the ability to integrate evidence-based treatments that improve the delivery of care and optimize treatment success as a result"--Provided by publisher.

Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part I: Overview of Evidence-Based Practice -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice -- Emergence of Evidence-Based Practice -- Defining Evidence-Based Practice -- Types of EBP Questions -- What Factors Best Predict Desirable or Undesirable Outcomes? -- What Can I Learn About Clients, Service Delivery, and Targets of Intervention From the Experiences of Others? -- What Assessment Tool Should Be Used? -- What Intervention, Program, or Policy Has the Best Effects? -- What Are the Costs of Interventions, Policies, and Tools? -- What About Potential Harmful Effects? -- Evidence-Based Practice Is Not Restricted to Clinical Decisions -- Developing an Evidence-Based Practice Process Outlook -- Critical Thinking -- Evidence-Based Practice as a Client-Centered, Compassionate Means, Not an End Unto Itself -- Evidence-Based Practice and Professional Ethics -- But What About the Dodo Bird Verdict? -- Easier Said Than Done -- Key Chapter Concepts -- Review Exercises -- Additional Readings -- Chapter 2: Steps in the EBP Process -- Step 1: Question For…