“…Prior to the development of EBP within social work, many proclaimed the need for practitioners to use scientific methods to evaluate their practice, while keeping current with the latest innovations from research (Kirk, 1999;Thyer, 1996;Whittaker, 2002 (Gibbs & Gambrill, 2002;Gira, Kessler, & Poertner, 2004;Raines, 2004;Rosen, 2003;Wambach, Haynes, & White, 1999).…”