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Abstract
This article examines the role and importance of intervention research in social work, namely to induce change to intentionally isolate or eradicate risk factors, activate and mobilise protective factors, reduce or eradicate harm, or introduce betterment beyond harm eradication. Intervention research is the main tool to support social work in understanding the outcomes of its interventions. This article outlines core components of the intervention research process. It elaborates on some of the serious challenges in intervention research. It concludes that to a certain extent, intervention research is a matter of life and death for the social work profession; understanding the effects of social work interventions is of monumental importance to the social work profession; intervention research is the most important purveyor of evidence on how social work interventions work; and intervention research is a very complex, costly, and time-consuming enterprise that is replete with challenges.
本文考察了社会工作中的干预研究。干预就是引起变化以孤立或消除风险因素，激活并动员保护因素，消减或消灭伤害，并带来改善。干预研究通过理解社会工作的结果而成为支持社会工作的主要工具。本文大略勾画了干预研究过程的主要成分。对干预研究中的一些重要问题做了详尽的讨论。本文的结论是，在一定程度上干预研究事关社会工作行业的存废；理解社会工作干预的效果对于社会工作行业至关重要；干预研究为社会工作干预有效与否提供了最重要的证据；干预研究是一项复杂、昂贵、费时且充满挑战的领域。