Embedding Evidence-Based Practice in Speech and Language Therapy (eBook)

International Examples

Hazel Roddam, Jemma Skeat (Herausgeber)

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2010
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9780470686591 (ISBN)

Infos

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 EBP challenge.

Embedding evidence-based practice in speech and language therapy showcases the creative ways that SLTs are developing knowledge and skills for EBP, creating contexts that support the use of evidence in practice, and working towards making evidence easily accessible and usable. It includes real-life examples of how SLTs have encountered a clinical problem or situation and have accessed and used the evidence within their day-to-day practice. The contributors come from a wide range of work settings, from services situated within large organizations to those in independent practice, and represent a range of clinical areas, from paediatric to adult and across speech, language, voice, fluency, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), and dysphagia.

This book is written for an audience of clinical practitioners, at any stage of their career, and is additionally a valuable resource for SLT students and lecturers.

The Editors

Dr. Hazel Roddam has over 25 years of clinical experience in speech and language therapy and is Principal Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Clinical Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Dr Jemma Skeat is an experienced paediatric clinical speech pathologist and a Research Fellow at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

Inhalt

Embedding Evidence-Based Practice in Speech and Language Therapy: International Examples 1
Contents 7
Contributors 10
Foreword 13
About the editors 16
Acknowledgements 17
Section One: Understanding EBP 19
1: Purpose of this book 21
2: What does EBP mean to speech and language therapists? 27
3: What are the barriers to EBP in speech and language therapy? 34
Section Two: Developing knowledge and skills for EBP 43
4: Teaching undergraduates to become critical and effective clinicians 45
5: Promoting clinical effectiveness with postgraduate students 54
6: Clinical effectiveness: not just a journal club 61
7: Using evidence-based practice in supervision 69
8: Meeting skill gaps and training needs (commentary on Section Two) 77
Section Three: Creating a supportive context for EBP 81
9: The role of leadership in creating evidence-based services 83
10: Supporting staff to balance caseload demands 90
11: A model of clinician-researcher collaboration in a community setting 97
12: Valuing evidence-based practice in the clinical setting – a showcase event 105
13: Launching and sustaining an evidence-based highly specialist service 112
14: Strategic approaches to promoting the value of EBP (commentary on Section Three) 119
Section Four: Making the evidence work for us 123
15: The importance of listening to the views of clients 125
16: Developing evidence-based clinical resources 132
17: Creating evidence-based policy to facilitate evidence-based practice 140
18: Building and supporting a multi-stream clinical evidence-based practice Network 147
19: Equipping ourselves as evidence-based practitioners: tools and resources for EBP (commentary on Section Four) 157
Section Five: Applying evidence to meet clinical challenges 161
20: A community-based project in rural Sri Lanka 163
21: Supporting communicative participation for children with complex communication needs: how the evidence contributes to the journey 169
22: Evidence-based diagnosis of speech, language and swallowing following paediatric stroke 175
23: Working with a dysfluent three-year-old from a bilingual family 181
24: Supporting parents and teachers in managing autism: an example of an evidence-informed model for assessment and intervention 186
25: Communication therapy on the Stroke Care Unit 192
26: Working with psychogenic dysphonia 197
27: Implementation of a free fluid protocol in an aged care facility 202
28: Prosody intervention for children 207
29: Supporting evidence-based practice for students on placement: making management decisions for clients with Down Syndrome 213
30: Bridging the research–clinical divide t hrough postgraduate research training 219
31: Many roads lead to EBP (commentary on Section Five) 224
Section Six: Future directions for EBP in speech and language therapy 229
32: Wider consultation on embedding EBP in SLT practice 231
33: The role of reflective practice in supporting EBP 240
34: Embedding EBP : future directions 248
Index 250

Rezensionen

"Because of the importance and immediate reference of the topic to current clinical practice as well as the transferable methods described, this book would be a vaulable resource for a wide range of readers - students, newly qualified therapists, lecturers, experienced therapists and managers." (Speech & Language Therapy in Practice, 1 March 2011)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.1.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Logopädie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Schlagworte: Activities • Base • challenge • clear • daytoday • EBP • Evidence • evidencebased • Field • Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen • Hazel • Health • Health & Social Care • instructive examples • ofpractice • Practice • Professionals • relevant • Research • showcases • slt • Speech • Speech therapy • Sprachtherapie • Themselves • uptodate • Wealth • World
• ISBN-13: 9780470686591 / 9780470686591