Professional
Interests:
Practice-Based
Research
Program
Evaluation and Research Utilization
Professionalization
of Social Work
Current
Research:
Using
Available Agency Information to Study Outcome Effectiveness
Selected
Recent Publications:
Epstein,
I. (1995). Promoting reflective social work practice:
Research strategies and
test
consulting principles. In P.Hess and E. Mullens, (Eds.),
Practitioner-researcher partnerships: Building knowledge
from, in, and for practice. Washing ton, D.C.: NASW
Press, 83-102.
Epstein,
I. (1996). In quest of a research-based model for
clinical practice: Or, why
can't
a social worker be more like a researcher? Social
Work Research,20, 97-100.
Collins,
M.E., Epstein, I., Barbarin, O. And Savas, S.A. (1996).
Re-Designing a
Clinical
Information System: A Description of the Process in
a Human Service Agency. Computers in Human Services,
13, 19-36.
Bernstein,
S., Goodman, H. and Epstein, I. (in press). Grounded
theory: A
methodology
for integrating social work and social science theory.
In D. Tucker, C. Garvin and R. Sarri (Eds.), Integration
of social work and social sciences. Greenwood Publishers.
Epstein,
I., Zilberfein, F. and Snyder, S. (in press). Using
available information
in
practice-based outcomes research: A case study of
psycho-social risk factors and liver transplant outcomes.
In E.J. Mullen and J.L. Magnabosco (Eds. ), Outcomes
measurement in the human services: Cross-cutting issues
and methods. NASW Press.
Bush,
I., Epstein, I. and Saines. A. (1997). Social work
utilization of social sciences
literature:
A content analysis of practice journal citations.
Social Work Research, 21, 45-56.
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