TY - JOUR
T1 - Building agency capacity for trauma-informed evidence-based practice and field instruction
AU - Strand, Virginia
AU - Popescu, Marciana
AU - Abramovitz, Robert
AU - Richards, Sean
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Through this article the authors describe how schools of social work offering a child and adolescent trauma specialization actively partnered with their community-based field placement agencies to achieve a dual purpose: help agencies sustain the capacity for evidence-based trauma treatment (EBTT) and provide sufficient EBTT MSW student field placement sites that support preparation of trauma-informed practitioners by schools of social work. Development and description of the specific conceptual framework used to inform the trauma-informed organizational change initiative is described. Results of an Organizational Readiness assessment undertaken at six agencies reflect a strong alignment between implementation drivers identified in the literature (Fixsen, Blase, Naoom, & Wallace, 2009) and the conceptual framework. The manner in which these results are being used by schools of social work and their agency partners in sustaining the implementation of evidence-based trauma treatment is reviewed, and implications for future research, education, and practice is discussed.
AB - Through this article the authors describe how schools of social work offering a child and adolescent trauma specialization actively partnered with their community-based field placement agencies to achieve a dual purpose: help agencies sustain the capacity for evidence-based trauma treatment (EBTT) and provide sufficient EBTT MSW student field placement sites that support preparation of trauma-informed practitioners by schools of social work. Development and description of the specific conceptual framework used to inform the trauma-informed organizational change initiative is described. Results of an Organizational Readiness assessment undertaken at six agencies reflect a strong alignment between implementation drivers identified in the literature (Fixsen, Blase, Naoom, & Wallace, 2009) and the conceptual framework. The manner in which these results are being used by schools of social work and their agency partners in sustaining the implementation of evidence-based trauma treatment is reviewed, and implications for future research, education, and practice is discussed.
KW - Field instruction
KW - Implementation science
KW - Trauma
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015136374&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/23761407.2015.1014124
DO - 10.1080/23761407.2015.1014124
M3 - Article
C2 - 26083452
AN - SCOPUS:85015136374
SN - 2376-1407
VL - 13
SP - 179
EP - 197
JO - Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work
JF - Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work
IS - 2
ER -