SBIRT Training in Social Work Education: Evaluating Change Using Standardized Patient Simulation

How to Teach Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work: A Systematic Review

“…Others provided no such information. With regard to measurement, only one (1.8%) measure was a performance test that was based on observation (in role-play; Sacco et al, 2017). Twenty-five (92.6%) studies based their measures solely (51.9%) or partly (40.7%) on self-report data.…”

“…Notably, there were no measures of actual use of the process of EBP or ESTs in real-life settings or of the fidelity with which ESTs were implemented with one exception. Sacco et al (2017) assessed fidelity of an EST used with standardized clients. Clearly, more research that includes the use of relevant declarative and procedural knowledge in real-world settings is needed to discover guidelines for teaching both the process of EBP and ESTs.…”

Teaching Social Work Students About Alcohol and Other Drug Use Disorders: From Faculty Learning to Pedagogical Innovation

“…In response to this call and the pressing need to address the nation’s AOD challenges, we have developed and implemented the first year of an immersion faculty training program focused on providing clinical faculty with state-of-the-art training in AOD identification and treatment methods as well as training designed to increase faculty confidence in teaching social work students about AOD (see Lundgren et al ., 2018a). To be sure, our program is but one among a number of ongoing efforts to help social work educators understand the importance of AOD in behavioral health, integrate evidence-based content effectively into social work instruction, and provide social work students with training in key modalities that are relevant to AOD identification and treatment (Begun, 2005; Carlson et al ., 2017; Truncali et al ., 2012; Sacco et al ., 2017; Senreich, Ogden, & Greenberg, 2017).…”

The Alcohol and Other Drugs Education Program for Social Work Faculty: A Model for Immersion Training

“…To be certain, we are well aware that our program is part of a broader effort to improve the quality of social work instruction in AOD use disorder identification and treatment, and to advance the skill development of social workers. Such efforts include programs designed to provide social work faculty with ready-made materials for teaching on an array of AOD-related topics (Begun, 2005), to stimulate interest in AOD-related training and research among future social work practitioners and educators (Truncali et al, 2012), and to train students and professional social workers in topics such as motivational interviewing (Hohman, 2015), Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (Carlson et al, 2017; Sacco et al, 2017; Putney, O’Brien, Collin, Levine, 2017; Senreich, Ogden, & Greenberg, 2017), harm reduction (Estreet, Archibald, Tirmazi, Goodman, & Cudjoe, 2017) and other AOD identification and treatment methods (McNeece & DiNitto, 2011).…”