The Place of Empiricism in Social Work.
The article focuses on the role of empiricism in social work. Too much of the social work profession's faith in its efforts is based on intuition and wishful thinking. The problem of social work's credibility stems, in part from its failure to document its effectiveness, and the unwillingness of pra...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social Work Education Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 257 - 260 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Fall92
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the role of empiricism in social work. Too much of the social work profession's faith in its efforts is based on intuition and wishful thinking. The problem of social work's credibility stems, in part from its failure to document its effectiveness, and the unwillingness of practitioners to generate and draw on empirical evidence related to their efforts. From this vantage point, social workers who reject empiricism are myopic in their vision. At worst, they exacerbate the reputation of the profession as a soft profession. |
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