Silver School of Social Work, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
Soc Work Health Care. 2012;51(6):483-505. doi: 10.1080/00981389.2012.671649.
Social work practitioners must act every working day in the face of uncertainty. This uncertainty arises in part because knowledge is often difficult to locate or sometimes lacking regarding: the systems context the population being served; the particular client system; the set of problems the client system is experiencing; as well as the various interventions that could be selected. It seems reasonable to explore ways to reduce the experience of uncertainty, and narrow, if not eliminate, the knowledge gaps that arise in such situations. The generic idea of evidence-based practice has been advanced for some time as an approach to support practitioners in their day-to-day work. This article has two foci. First, it will briefly and selectively review attempts to make social work practice more evidence based. Second, it will describe one stage in the evolution of a Web-based service (information for practice [IP]). IP is a long-term project with the mission of keeping practitioners informed about news and new scholarship in the field, so that they can more easily make their practice more evidenced based.
社会工作者必须在每天的工作中面对不确定性。这种不确定性部分源于以下方面的知识通常难以定位或有时缺乏：服务人群的系统背景；特定的客户系统；客户系统正在经历的一系列问题；以及可以选择的各种干预措施。探索减少不确定性体验的方法，并缩小甚至消除这种情况下出现的知识差距似乎是合理的。循证实践的一般理念已经提出了一段时间，作为一种支持从业者日常工作的方法。本文有两个重点。首先，它将简要选择性地回顾使社会工作实践更具循证性的尝试。其次，它将描述基于网络的服务（实践信息）发展过程中的一个阶段。IP 是一个长期项目，其使命是让从业者了解该领域的新闻和新学术成果，以便他们能够更容易地使自己的实践更具循证性。
