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Abstract
Contemporary emphasis on measuring and evaluating observable, behavioral outcomes reflects a major change in the profession toward greater empirical basis for social work practice. This intellectual and methodological shift has created a gap between practitioners and researchers. While social work practitioners definitely should be more knowledgeable and receptive to interventions that have proven to be effective in helping people, social work academics must pay more attention to the realities of social work practitioners who struggle daily with expanding caseloads, ever-increasing time pressures to help clients whose lives are embedded in poverty, unemployment, oppression, racism, homelessness, and violence.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
An earlier version of this article was presented at the 3rd International Conference on Practice Research. Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, June 10, 2014.
Notes
1. Discussion is presented in Gitterman and Germain (Citation2008).
2. I express my appreciation to Professor Martha Dore for sharing her ideas and materials related to goal attainment scaling.