Embedding Evidence‐Based Practice in speech and language therapy : international examples / edited by Hazel Roddam and Jemma Skeat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roddam, Hazel.

Skeat, Jemma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech therapy.

Evidence-based medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; [Hoboken] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Like all health professionals, speech and language therapists (SLTs) need to keep themselves up-to-date with the research evidence base that is relevant to their field of practice and be able to show how this contributes to their clinical decision-making. However, it is not always clear to practitioners how evidence-based practice (EBP) can be properly embedded in their day-to-day activities. In this valuable book, Hazel Roddam and Jemma Skeat present a wealth of instructive examples by SLT contributors from around the world, showing how clinicians, educators, and researchers have risen to the

Contents:

Embedding Evidence-Based Practice in Speech and Language Therapy: International Examples; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; About the editors; Acknowledgements; Section One: Understanding EBP; 1: Purpose of this book; 2: What does EBP mean to speech and language therapists?; 3: What are the barriers to EBP in speech and language therapy?; Section Two: Developing knowledge and skills for EBP; 4: Teaching undergraduates to become critical and effective clinicians; 5: Promoting clinical effectiveness with postgraduate students; 6: Clinical effectiveness: not just a journal club

7: Using evidence-based practice in supervision8: Meeting skill gaps and training needs (commentary on Section Two); Section Three: Creating a supportive context for EBP; 9: The role of leadership in creating evidence-based services; 10: Supporting staff to balance caseload demands; 11: A model of clinician-researcher collaboration in a community setting; 12: Valuing evidence-based practice in the clinical setting - a showcase event; 13: Launching and sustaining an evidence-based highly specialist service; 14: Strategic approaches to promoting the value of EBP (commentary on Section Three)

Section Four: Making the evidence work for us15: The importance of listening to the views of clients; 16: Developing evidence-based clinical resources; 17: Creating evidence-based policy to facilitate evidence-based practice; 18: Building and supporting a multi-stream clinical evidence-based practice Network; 19: Equipping ourselves as evidence-based practitioners: tools and resources for EBP (commentary on Section Four); Section Five: Applying evidence to meet clinical challenges; 20: A community-based project in rural Sri Lanka

21: Supporting communicative participation for children with complex communication needs: how the evidence contributes to the journey22: Evidence-based diagnosis of speech, language and swallowing following paediatric stroke; 23: Working with a dysfluent three-year-old from a bilingual family; 24: Supporting parents and teachers in managing autism: an example of an evidence-informed model for assessment and intervention; 25: Communication therapy on the Stroke Care Unit; 26: Working with psychogenic dysphonia; 27: Implementation of a free fluid protocol in an aged care facility

28: Prosody intervention for children29: Supporting evidence-based practice for students on placement: making management decisions for clients with Down Syndrome; 30: Bridging the research-clinical divide t hrough postgraduate research training; 31: Many roads lead to EBP (commentary on Section Five); Section Six: Future directions for EBP in speech and language therapy; 32: Wider consultation on embedding EBP in SLT practice; 33: The role of reflective practice in supporting EBP; 34: Embedding EBP : future directions; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612482212

9781282482210

1282482211

9780470686584

0470686588

9780470686591

0470686596

OCLC:

587063597