Anne E. Fortune; Philip McCallion ; Katharine Briar-Lawson -- Stuart Kirk -- Critical infrastructures for social work practice research : pondering the past, framing the future / Ronald A. Feldman -- Empirical practice in social work / Anne E. Fortune -- Qualitative social work practice research / Ian Shaw -- Group work research : past, present, and future / Charles D. Garvin -- Social development interventions have extensive long-lasting effects / Richard F. Catalano ; Karl G. Hill ; Kevin P. haggerty ; Charles B. Fleming ; J. David Hawkins -- Advances in children's mental health / Mark W. Fraser ; Mary A. Terzian -- Evidence-based services to children in a conservative environment / June G. Hopps ; Tony B. Lowe ; Latrice S. Rollins -- Social-behavioral research in aging and the social work research agenda / Barbara Berkman -- A culturally grounded approach to drug use prevention with Latino children and youth / Flavio Francisco Marsiglia -- Development of intervention models with "new overwhelmed clients" / June G. Hopps ; Tony B. Lowe ; Ollie G. Christian -- Pulling together research studies to inform social work practice : the science of research synthesis / Julia H. Littell -- The intellectual legacy of William J. Reid / Lynn Videka ; James A. Blackburn -- Task-centered practice in the United States / Ronald H. Rooney -- Task-centered practice in Great Britain / Peter Marsh -- Task-centered practice in the Netherlands / Nel Jagt ; Louwerus Jagt -- Task-centered practice in Germany / Matthias Naleppa -- Task-centered practice in Switzerland / Alexander Kobel ; Matthias Naleppa -- Task-centered practice in Norway / Rita Elisabeth Eriksen -- Task-centered practice in Australia / Christopher Trotter -- Task-centered practice in Japan / Fujie Ito -- Task-centered practice in South Korea / Nam-Soon Huh ; Yun-Soon Koh -- Task-centered practice in Hong Kong / T. Wing Lo -- Task-centered practice in Taiwan / Yueh-Ching Chou ; Ronald H. Rooney -- The question of questions : an agenda for social work practice research / Enola K. Proctor -- Building capacity for intervention research / Jack M. Richman -- Building evidence-based intervention models / Anne E. Fortune ; Philip McCallion ; Katharine Briar-Lawson.

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This volume incorporates the concerns of a new century into models for practice research. It builds on the visionary work of William J. Reid (1928-2003) who transformed social work research through empirically based and task-centered approaches-and, more recently, synthesized intervention knowledge for framing future study. This collection reviews the task-centered model and other contemporary Evidence-Based Practice models for working with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations. Essays demonstrate the value of these pragmatic approaches in the United States and international settings. Contributors summarize state-of-the-art methods in several key fields of service, including children and families, aging, substance abuse, and mental health. They also evaluate the research movement itself, outlining an agenda for today's sociopolitical landscape and the profession. This volume inspires practice research to prioritize evidence as a base for the profession.