Intsoceval workshop 2002:
Evidence-Based Social Work Practice

Faculty House, Columbia University, New York, USA
400 West 117th Street, Manhattan, New York
3rd -4th October 2002

Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Social Work Practice (a joint program of the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services) and The Musher Program, Columbia University

• Call for papers (Rich Text File)

Papers and Presentations

England

• Paper: Intercentre collaboration: establishment of a research reviews infrastructure (rich text file)
  Mike Fisher, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), London
• Paper: Intercentre collaboration: IMQUISO (European Union Project)
  Presentation: Intercentre collaboration: IMQUISO (European Union Project) (rich text file)
  Peter Marsh, University of Sheffield
• Paper: Intercentre collaboration: Social Services performance management (rich text file)
  Presentation: Intercentre collaboration: Social Services performance management (Powerpoint file)
  Hazel Qureshi, Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of York

Switzerland

• Paper: Intercentre collaboration: governance and citizenship and the position of the profession in social problem-solving processes (rich text file)
  Presentation: Intercentre collaboration: governance and citizenship and the position of the profession in social problem-solving processes (Powerpoint file)
  Peter Sommerfield, School for Social Work, Research and Development Department, Fachhochschule Solothurn Nordwestschweiz, Hochschule für Soziales Solothurn

Netherlands

• Paper: Dilemmas in outcome orientation and accountability in the Netherlands: Evidence based practice versus outcome measurement in every day practice (rich text file)
  Presentation: Dilemmas in outcome orientation and accountability in the Netherlands: Evidence based practice versus outcome measurement in every day practice (Powerpoint file)
  Willem Melief, Verwey-Jonker Instituut, Utrecht

Scotland

• Paper: Why evaluate?The (contested) role of evaluative research in social work (rich text file)
  Moira Walker, Social Work Research Centre, University of Stirling

Sweden

• Paper: Social work and evaluation: an overview of special issue of Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, and comments on a planned book (rich text file)
  Haluk Soydan, Centre for Evaluation of Social Services, National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm

Finland

• Paper: Rating therapists who treat substance abusers (PDF)
  Presentation: Rating therapists who treat substance abusers (Powerpoint file)
  Mikko Mantysaari, Jyväskylä University

United States

• Paper: Mental health recovery: what helps and what hinders? A national research project for the development of recovery facilitating system performance indicators (rich text file)
  Presentation: Mental health recovery: what helps and what hinders? A national research project for the development of recovery facilitating system performance indicators (Powerpoint file)
  Steven J Onken, Center for the Study of Social Work Practice (Columbia University School of Social Work and Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services), Columbia University

Wales

• Paper: Practitioner research as evidence and critique (rich text file)
  Presentation: Practitioner research as evidence and critique (rich text file)
  Ian Shaw, Research Support Unit for Health and Social Care, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Cardiff

Denmark

• Paper: Educational thinking in social and special education concerning children and youngsters in care (rich text file)
  Inge M Bryderup, Centre for Research of Social Work Practice
• Paper: Day-care centres and social reproduction: a survey of the effects of day care on children from socially deprived backgrounds (rich text file)
  Presentation: Day-care centres and social reproduction: a survey of the effects of day care on children from socially deprived backgrounds (Powerpoint file)
  Bente Jensen, Centre for Research of Social Work Practice

Representatives at this event

• Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK - Ian Shaw
• Centre for Research of Social Work Practice, The Danish University of Education, Department of Educational Sociology (Institutleder, lektor Institut for pædagogisk sociologi Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet), Copenhagen, Denmark - Inge Bryderup and Bente Jensen
• Centre for Evaluation of Social Services (CUS),Stockholm, Sweden - Karin Tengvaldand Haluk Soydan
• Center for the Study of Social Work Practice & the Musher Program, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, USA - Ronald A. Feldman, Bruce Grellong, Edward Mullen, Steven Onken, Chito Trillana(hosts)
• Finnish Evaluation Unit for Social Services (FinSoc), Helsinki, Finland - Riitta Haverinen
• Jyväskylä University, Finland - Mikko Mäntysaari
• Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE),London, England, UK - Mike Fisher
• Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU),York, England, UK - Hazel Qureshi
• Verwey-Jonker Instituut, Utrecht, Netherlands - Willem Melief
• Research in Practice, Children and Families Research Group, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, UK - Peter Marsh
• Social Work Practice Centre, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK - Gill McIvor, Kirsten Stalker and Miora Walker
• School for Social Work, Hochschule fu Soziales Solothurn, Switzerland - Peter Sommerfeld