The Sociometrics Program Archives: Promoting the Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices Through Replication Kits

It is important that psychosocial interventions that have been shown to be effective in changing risky behavior be disseminated, so that they can be replicated and their effectiveness evaluated in a new setting. This article describes an innovative method for promoting the dissemination of evidence-...

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Published in:Research on social work practice 2001-07, Vol.11 (4), p.521-526
Main Author: Card, Josefina J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior modification
Children & youth
Drug abuse
Evidence based medicine
Human immunodeficiency virus
Information Dissemination
Intervention
Prevention
Program Evaluation
Research Applications
Risk
Sexual behavior
Social Work
Sociometry
Theory Practice Relationship
Treatment Methods
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Summary:It is important that psychosocial interventions that have been shown to be effective in changing risky behavior be disseminated, so that they can be replicated and their effectiveness evaluated in a new setting. This article describes an innovative method for promoting the dissemination of evidence-based practice through replication kits. Three problem-focused collections of promising prevention programs, the Program Archive on Sexuality, Health and Adolescence, the HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Archive, and the Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Program Archive, are used to illustrate this technique for improving information exchange between social work research and practice. The productive research-to-practice feedback loop described in this article can be generalized to any other content area for which standard intervention protocols or curricula have been or could be developed.
ISSN:1049-7315
1552-7581
DOI:10.1177/104973150101100407