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Allen Rubin, Ph.D., Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor in Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin speaks on the history of efforts to bridge the gap between research and practice in social work, including the following: calls for research utilization at the dawn of the profession; 1970s conferences on the same theme as this one; the empirical clinical practice movement; influences during the 1990s; the 1998 NASW Summit; empirically supported interventions (ESTs); and the evidence-based practice movement. More current factors, issues, and implications covered include: advances in implementation science; issues in the common elements approach; problems of implementing ESTs in real world settings; and implications for future efforts to bridge the gap.
Allen Rubin, Ph.D., Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor in Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin speaks on the history of efforts to bridge the gap between research and practice in social work, including the following: calls for research utilization at the dawn of the profession; 1970s conferences on the same theme as this one; the empirical clinical practice movement; influences during the 1990s; the 1998 NASW Summit; empirically supported interventions (ESTs); and the evidence-based practice movement. More current factors, issues, and implications covered include: advances in implementation science; issues in the common elements approach; problems of implementing ESTs in real world settings; and implications for future efforts to bridge the gap.
