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| Task-Centered Practice× | Evidence-Based Practice Process× | |
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| Field | Social Work | Social Work |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1972 | 1996 |
| Originator≠ | William J. Reid & Laura Epstein | Evidence-based medicine tradition (Sackett et al.); translated to social work by Gambrill and others |
| Type≠ | Short-term, structured, problem-solving practice model organized around client tasks | Structured process for integrating evidence, expertise, and client values in practice decisions |
| Seminal source≠ | Reid, W. J., & Epstein, L. (1972). Task-Centered Casework. Columbia University Press. ISBN: 9780231034661 | Sackett, D. L., Rosenberg, W. M. C., Gray, J. A. M., Haynes, R. B., & Richardson, W. S. (1996). Evidence based medicine: What it is and what it isn't. BMJ, 312(7023), 71–72. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Task-Centered Casework, Task-Centered Model, Task-Centered Social Work, Reid-Epstein Task-Centered Approach | EBP Process, Evidence-Based Practice (Process Model), Five-Step EBP Process, Evidence-Informed Practice Process |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Task-centered practice is a short-term, structured, problem-solving model of social-work intervention in which the worker and client identify a small number of specific target problems the client wants to address, agree on a time-limited contract, and then collaboratively develop and carry out concrete tasks to reduce those problems. Created by William Reid and Laura Epstein in 1972, it was one of the first social-work practice models built deliberately for empirical evaluation, and its emphasis on client-chosen problems, explicit tasks, and bounded time made it a foundation for evidence-based, accountable practice. | The evidence-based practice (EBP) process is a structured, five-step way of making practice decisions by integrating the best available research evidence with professional expertise and the client's values and circumstances. Originating in evidence-based medicine as defined by Sackett and colleagues and translated into social work by Eileen Gambrill and others, it reframes EBP not as a fixed list of approved programs but as a transparent decision process — ask, acquire, appraise, apply, assess — that an individual practitioner carries out with and for a particular client. |
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