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- Title
Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn: Recursive Information Flow to Build Relationships and Improve Practice.
- Authors
Larson, Anita M.; Langworthy, Sara E.
- Abstract
The successful integration of evidence-based practice models into social work continues to be challenged by a number of factors. In an effort to understand these challenges, scholars have started to explore contextual attributes such as collaboration, relationships, and organizational culture. In recognition of the value of collaboration overall, and in relation to research in particular, collaboration was examined across two key systems, education and child welfare, with the intent of understanding how these systems can work best together on behalf of children. Professionals from both systems were gathered in multiple focus groups in one Midwestern state to explore the barriers to and facilitating circumstances around cross-system collaboration to improve the education outcomes of children involved in child welfare systems. Practice-based strategies for improving collaboration consistently revolved around relationship-building, a key component of social work practice. This work revealed many key ways that evidence-based practice implementation could benefit from researchers attending to practice-based evidence- such as relationship-building-to strengthen the integration of EBP into the field. Specific suggestions are offered to academics and practitioners engaged in collaborations around implementing and evaluating evidence-based practice that revolve around establishing robust and equitable relationships.
- Subjects
MIDWEST (U.S.); UNITED States; LISTENING; EVIDENCE-based social work; COLLECTIVE action -- Social aspects; CHILD welfare; SOCIAL services -- Practice; INTERPERSONAL relations &; society; INTERPERSONAL relations; AUDITORY perception; AUSCULTATION; COOPERATIVENESS; CORPORATE culture; FOCUS groups; LEARNING; RESEARCH funding; SOCIAL case work
- Publication
Child Welfare, 2015, Vol 94, Issue 3, p59
- ISSN
0009-4021
- Publication type
Article