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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 4:167-176 (2004)
© Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved.

What Is Evidence-Based Practice?

   Bruce A. Thyer, PhD

From the School of Social Work at Florida State University.

Contact author: B. A. Thyer, Dean and Professor, School of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306. E-mail: bthyer{at}mailer.fsu.edu.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a new, comprehensive model of health care that provides guidance for other human services as well. The concept of EBP is subject to considerable misinterpretations, as those invested in the status quo attempt to distort this new and growing movement into existing practices. By drawing on the original source handbook, Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, this article describes what EBP really is, what its major steps are, and what its implications are for the delivery of brief treatments and crisis interventions.

KEY WORDS: evidence-based practice, empirical practice, ethics




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