Social Work: Evidence-Based Practice 

PsycBooks is an online database that includes the full-text of chapters and books. It has a number of books and chapters on evidence-based practice.

A special note to our off-site students: if you need to use any books in our reference collection, we would be happy to e-mail you selected chapters from the books. E-mail us and let us know if you would like us to send you any chapters.

Use Quest, the Boston College Libraries catalog to find books on evidence-based practice at BC.

Here are some useful keywords to use when searching for books with evidence-based information:

• treatment guidelines
• best practices
• guidelines
• practice guidelines
• evidence-based
• treatment planners

Try any of these keywords listed above with words that represent the issue you are researching. Examples:

• Anxiety AND treatment guidelines
• evidence-based AND depression
• guidelines AND eating disorders

 These titles represent only a sampling of the practice guidelines that we have in the reference collection:

• Handbook of Assessment and Treatment Planning for Psychological Disorders.(Anthony & Barlow, 2002) Reference RC469.H356


• The Personality Disorders Treatment Planner. (Bockian & Jongsma, 2001) Reference RC554.B63


• The Family Therapy Treatment Planner. (Dattilio & Jongsma, 2000) Reference RC488.5.D35 2000


• The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner. (Jongsma & Peterson, 2006) Reference RC480.5 1999


• The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner. (O'Leary, Heyman, & Jongsma, 2006) Reference RC 488.5.0395


• The Group Therapy Treatment Planner. (Paleg & Jongsma, 2005)
  Reference RC488.P35 2000