Social Workers' Attitudes towards Evidence-based Practice: A Multidimensional Perspective.
The current study presents a multidimensional model that integrates social workers' demographics, organisational context variables, evidence-based practice (EBP)-related factors and mental health variables and explores their contribution to social workers' attitudes to implementing EBP. This model a...
| Published in: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 4497 - 4518 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2022
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