systematic literature review in social work

While literature reviews can be selective in what research is included, a systematic review seeks to minimize bias by appraising and summarizing all available evidence in a rigorous and transparent way, in accordance with a predetermined set of inclusion/exclusion criteria (Fisher et al., 2006; McKenzie et al., 2019; Saini & Shlonsky, 2012; Soilemezi & Linceviciute, 2018).

What is a Literature Review? Learning Outcomes • To understand what we mean by 'the literature' and evidence in social work • To gain an awareness of what grey literature is, and why it is important • To develop an awareness of the differing functions of literature reviews • To gain an overview of narrative and systematic literature ...

There is a long established tradition in the social sciences of authors reviewing the relevant literature and developing an argument around what they regard as the salient points (Littell, Citation 2008).Indeed it would be rare for a paper to be published in a journal such as Australian Social Work not to include some form of literature review. In its more traditional form, sometimes known as ...

Introduction. Literature review is an essential feature of academic research. Fundamentally, knowledge advancement must be built on prior existing work. To push the knowledge frontier, we must know where the frontier is. By reviewing relevant literature, we understand the breadth and depth of the existing body of work and identify gaps to explore.

Social workers are increasingly using digital technology and online platforms in service delivery, with many services having moved online in 2020 following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. A systematic literature review was conducted to synthesize research on the benefits and uncertainties of technology-mediated social work practice.

The aim of this systematic literature review was to ascertain the contributions, challenges, and context of social work practice in Primary Health care, with a particular interest in GP settings. The 26 included studies were reviewed to determine the nature, patient outcomes, benefits, enablers, and challenges of social work practice in GP ...

A systematic review of literature studies allows the researcher to get a more comprehensive picture of the state of research in the field, especially the research results and findings that have been made. In the process, literature gaps, challenges, impediments, and possibilities for future research directions were examined.

Systematic Literature Review. Knowing what we know about knowledge in social work: The search for a comprehensive model of knowledge production. ... its production in social work are reviewed against significant ideas from the interdisciplinary knowledge production literature beyond social work. In so doing, the place of holistic approaches to ...

Systematic Reviews in Social Work. This page contains guidance for conducting a systematic review in social work, including comprehensive database searches, gray literature searching, forming a research question, brainstorming keywords, and examples of eligibility criteria and search logs.

Here are a couple of articles found in Sage Research Methods Online which give good definitions of what a Systematic Literature Review is and how to do one: Dempster, M. (2003). Systematic review. In Robert L. Miller, & John D. Brewer (Eds.), The A-Z of Social Research. (pp. 312-317). London, England: SAGE

Focusing specifically on the impact on social work, this paper presents the findings of a systematic literature review synthesising social workers experience of bureaucracy across thirty-nine published qualitative studies.

What were the emerging best practices of social workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system in the U.S. South? We needed to explore these questions to formulate knowledge that could be beneficial for VA health care. This literature review assesses the current responses from the field of social work during the COVID-19 ...

This study is based on a review of published articles that reflect 10 years of research on social work participation in community governance. After an extensive literature review, a total of 24 ...

What were the emerging best practices of social workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system in the U.S. South? We needed to explore these questions to formulate knowledge that could be beneficial for VA health care. This literature review assesses the current responses from the field of social work during the COVID-19 ...

Because the objective of this systematic literature review is to determine social workers' experiences of bureaucracy, not the broader social services sector, the inclusion of liter-ature was limited to studies which defined participants as social workers. Although social workers are employed across a range of settings and fields, an ...

a systematic literature review of the resources in this substantive area, including the grey literature used by social work practitioners, that specifically explores social workers' roles undertaken during disasters. Therefore, under the backdrop of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the British Association of Social Work (BASW) England ...

Method details Overview. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is a research methodology to collect, identify, and critically analyze the available research studies (e.g., articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations) through a systematic procedure [12].An SLR updates the reader with current literature about a subject [6].The goal is to review critical points of current knowledge on a ...

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Written by two highly-respected social scientists, provides an overview of systematic literature review methods: Outlining the rationale and methods of systematic reviews; Giving worked examples from social science and other fields; Applying the practice to all social science disciplines; It requires no previous knowledge, but takes the reader through the process stage by stage.

A systematic review is a very specific approach to searching for literature which seeks to find all studies which have been published and which meet the review's eligibility criteria. A true systematic review should include clear objectives with eligibility criteria for inclusion; a methodology, which it should be possible to replicate ...

Social Work Literature Review Guidelines. Literature reviews are designed to do two things: 1) give your readers an overview of sources you have explored while researching a particular topic or idea and 2) demonstrate how your research fits into the larger field of study, in this case, social work. Unlike annotated bibliographies which are ...

Although a key element of social work's ethical code is the obligation to work toward social justice, this has been viewed primarily as efforts to ensure a fair distribution of resources and opportunities. Yet justice is also restorative in nature--seeking to restore and enhance victims, offenders, and communities to fuller functioning.

Systematic review methodology will be used to identify systematic reviews from high-income countries that describe interventions aiming to reduce inequalities for women who experience social disadvantage during pregnancy. We will describe the range of interventions and their effectiveness in reducing inequalities in maternal or child health.

This study aims to systematically review the landscape of social work supervision within the disability field, prompted by the rising global prevalence of individuals with disabilities and the imperative for specialized training and supervision in this domain. The systematic review adhered to PRISMA guidelines, utilizing six databases (PsychNet ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) poses a significant concern in the construction and natural resources industries, where women, due to lower social status and integration, are at heightened risk. This systematic review aimed to identify the prevalence and experience of GBV in the construction and natural resources industries. A systematic search across databases including PubMed, OVID, Scopus, Web ...

However, among Australian social workers, utilisation and conduct of systematic reviews has been limited. This paper will explore the question of what a systematic review is, introduce some of the key issues in undertaking such a review, and explore the implications of the emergence of systematic reviews from a social work perspective.

The word "Social" was seen in the research by Badri Ahmadi et al. , highlighted in Cluster 3 of the bibliographic coupling analysis as seen previously, as well as in the article by Govindan et al. entitled "Social sustainability tensions in multi-tier supply chain: A systematic literature review towards conceptual framework development ...

This review of qualitative research followed the guidelines for systematic literature reviews proposed by Bettany-Saltikov and McSherry (Citation 2016) and was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses -PRISMA (Page et al., Citation 2021). This systematic review synthesises subjective ...