Social Work Intervention

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a process in which the practitioner combines well-researched interventions with clinical experience and ethics, and client preferences and culture to guide and inform the delivery of treatments and services (2010). The social worker must identify which social work intervention delivers adequate results in accordance to the presenting problem. No one intervention method can work with the same client or social issue. According to this approach ensures that the treatments and services, when used as intended, will have the most effective outcomes as demonstrated by the research. As a result, it is imperative that the results and findings of the research data depict that these interventions can be successful in treatment. According to Bellamy, Bledsoe, and Traube (2006) there is a growing body of evidence describing effective interventions, but there is not a substantial body of work addressing the dissemination of these programs and other research findings for use in the field.
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Systems theory may be applicable to this client problem because it provides insight in regards to how other areas of someone's life can have a detrimental impact on them. Systems Theory explains human behavior as the intersection of the influences of multiple interrelated systems (2017). While utilizing a systems thinking approach it can be explained why homelessness exists. It is noted that we have the ability to change our own problems and be the change agent to problem solve through the current situation. Social problem solving ability refers to the ability to resolve personal and interpersonal problems through a conscious decisions making process (Fortune, 1984). If clients are able to problem solve through their own situations it will help them process further life changing