Stephen Webb

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that social workers engage in a reflexive understanding and not a determinate or certainty based decision-making pro cess based on objective evidence, and that the tendency to separate processes into 'facts' and 'values' implicit in evidence-based procedures undermines professional judgement and discretion in social work.

TL;DR: The Practice of Value Bibliography as discussed by the authors is a collection of articles about value in social work, risk society and modernity Risk, Regulation and Neo-Liberalism Security, Trust and Care Pathways Direct Work, Knowledge and Intervention Technologies of Care Management and Organization of Social Work

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that in a complex socio-political world, social work ethics needs to re-cast the moral identity of the social worker in terms of virtue ethics, the acquired inner qualities of humans, the possession of which, if applied in due measure, will typically contribute to the realization of the good life or "eudaimonia".

TL;DR: T tentative findings suggest that to facilitate the uptake of EBP in social work and human services practice, strategically driven, adequately resourced, multifaceted approaches to EBP capacity building in organizations are needed.