Through scientific knowledge utilization, evidenced-based practices, and empirical research, WEB-AOD ventures through a cultural assimilation with science on route to solve critical life problems (Brekke, 2013). Namely, how to educate and support students in obtaining behavioral health education.
Science can be defined as a co-occurring implementation of theory and empirical methods towards focal phenomena (Brekke, 2012). As the definition implies, science can therefore correspond to a vast variety of topics. Social Work too covers a wide array of subject matters, deemed a “kaleidoscope” of roles by Busch-Armendariz, Nsonwu, and Heffron (2014). As a theory-based science, social workers may subscribe to one or several frameworks. These can include an individual or systems scope (Green & McDermott, 2010).
Brekke, J.S. (2012). Shaping a Science of Social Work. Research on Social Work Practice, 22(5), 455–464.
Brekke, J. S. (2013). A Science of Social Work, and Social Work as an Integrative Scientific Discipline: Have We Gone Too Far, or Not Far Enough? Research on Social Work Practice, 24(5), 517–523.
Busch-Armendariz, N., Nsonwu, M. B., & Heffron, L.C. (2014). A kaleidoscope: The role of the Social Work practitioner and the strength of Social Work theories and practice in meeting the complex needs of people trafficked and the professionals that Work with them. International Social Work, 57(1), 7–18.
Green, D. & McDermott, F. (2010). Social Work from inside and between complex systems: Perspectives on Person-In-Environment for Today’s Social Work. The British Journal of Social Work, 40(8), 2414–2430. Oxford University Press.
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Universal Intellectual Standards include:
Elder, L. & Paul, R. (2004). Adapted from The Thinker’s Guide to the Art of Strategic Thinking: 25 Weeks to Better Thinking and Better Living.