ABSTRACT

This guest editorial explores how theory-informed and evidence-informed practice can be strengthened in human service organizations. This exploration involves the description of a Practice and Theory group intervention model. Based on a three-case study of pilot intervention groups provided to social workers, the short-term and intermediate outcomes as well as the expected intermediate and long-term outcomes are presented and illustrated by a logic model. The shared conversations help overcome the difficulties practitioners and managers may have in understanding the role of theory or research in practice. Discussing theories in the context of everyday practice can provide practitioners with concrete tools for decision-making. Applying and experimenting with theories opens new perspectives for the problem-solving process where the practitioner is experimenting, reflecting and seeking to improve practice. Thus, shared reflections of theories and research can promote adaptive and developmental workplace learning and enhance an individual sense of epistemic agency.

摘要

这篇客座社论探讨了如何在人类服务组织中加强基于理论和基于证据的实践。这种探索涉及对实践和理论小组干预模型的描述。基于提供给社会工作者的试点干预组的三个案例研究，通过逻辑模型呈现和说明短期和中期结果以及预期的中期和长期结果。共享对话有助于克服从业者和管理者在理解理论或研究在实践中的作用时可能遇到的困难。在日常实践中讨论理论可以为实践者提供具体的决策工具。应用和试验理论为从业者进行试验、反思和寻求改进实践的问题解决过程打开了新的视角。因此，对理论和研究的共同反思可以促进适应性和发展性工作场所学习，并增强个人的认知能动性。