Evaluating social work practice.

J D Kagle

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Evaluating social work practice.

J D Kagle

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Few studies have explored the criteria by which social work practice is generally evaluated. This study, which used written case analogues, found that information on both the process and outcome of a case is used in making evaluative judments of practitioners' performance.

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J D Kagle. 1979. Evaluating social work practice.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10243330/

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