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Evidence based practice

Evidence-based practice in the community services setting is crucial for the delivery of treatments and services to clients. It is a process that involves seeking the best way to address the client's needs, identifying the best evidence to answer a question based on these needs, evaluating the efficacy and applicability of the evidence, and analyzing the solution's effectiveness. This process ensures that the services offered to clients are aligned with the needs initially identified. Social workers need to be effective and dynamic in their work. This is achieved through embracing evidence-based approaches when determining the interventions to employ.

By using evidence-based approaches, practitioners in this field can remove bias and critically address new challenges they face with a fresh perspective. The outcome of this includes a high-quality service delivered to clients. The client also becomes an active player in the decision-making process because these approaches include considering the client's preferences. The practitioner also documents the evidence-based practice, which helps in future interventions. The client can also participate in the decision-making process of the interventions, giving them control and a feeling of consideration in their treatment. It also improves the relationship between the practitioner and the client as they work together in deciding the best intervention that prioritizes the client's needs.

This assessment is for you to reflect upon the different original discussion board forum posts and contributions you have made during this unit and those posts also submitted by other students too.

To complete this assessment, you must participate in the weekly learning activities. Each weekly learning activity is closed two weeks from when it was made available (for example you cannot get to week 10 and try to go back to week 4 to complete the activities). You must write a reflection on three of the learning activity discussion threads that you have participated. You need to complete 70% of learning activities please see the rubric).

You will choose two of your discussion posts to submit from weeks 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10. You cannot choose two from the same week.

Then you will choose a third discussion post where you responded to another student's post. This cannot be from the same weeks as the two posts you have already chosen. Who will then copy the chosen learning activity discussion thread responses and paste into a word document.
You then need to prepare a substantial reflective post for each of the three posts. You need to write a minimum of 200 words after each post. Add an introduction and conclusion to your essay.

Compile everything into a single document with a coversheet for submission to Moodie by the due date.

You must use APA 7 referencing. Your reflective essay should include at least 7 (scholarly) journal articles you have read and any additional textbook references. in your reference list.