%0 Journal Article
%T Evidence-Based Practice as Social Work "Technology"
%A Ronald E. Hall
%J Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
%D 2008
%I Social Care Ireland
%X Contemporary scholars who are critical of social work insist that its status is one of a semi-profession. Their assumption is contingent primarily upon an assumed lack of rigor and technological expertise. Social Work will be regarded as a legitimate profession if it adopts Evidence Based Practice. It entails the application of a series of scientific research procedures that are dictated by scientific evidence. By adopting EBP critics will be less able to challenge Social WorkĄŻs professional status.
%K evidence-based practice
%K social work
%K social work practice
%K technology
%U http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass/vol8/iss1/4/