SLWK 380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Evidence-Based Practice, Karl Popper, Scientific Method
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Using the best scientific evidence available in deciding how to intervene with individuals, families, groups, or communities. Some social workers still use interventions and procedures that have not received adequate testing. Always keep up with research and best practices. Scientific method: approach to both agreement reality and experiential reality. Consider things we call knowledge to be tentative and subject to refutation. We also learn from personal experience, tradition, authority, common sense, and. Unless it is possible to state observations that would contradict or disprove, no conclusion can be considered scientific. Social workers learning things about social work practice via their personal practice experience. May not occur to you to seek different understanding. Can become too comfortable doing something and then never look for evidence. Inquiry is hindered when we only depend on authority, especially if speaking outside of expertise. Assuming a few similar events are evidence of a general pattern. Paying attention only to certain events the fit your overgeneralization.
