Values-Based Health & Social Care
Beyond Evidence-Based Practice
- Jill McCarthy - University of Chester, UK
- Pat Rose - University of Chester, UK
Is evidence-based practice really best practice? This is a hotly debated question in health and social care circles and the starting point for this book. Engaging firmly in the debate, Values-Based Health & Social Care calls into question the dominance of evidence-based practice and sets out an alternative vision of care which places holism, professional judgment, intuition, and client choice at its center.
Bringing together writers from a range of health and social care backgrounds, the book describes the rise of evidence-based practice and explores major criticisms of the approach. It argues that evidence should be seen as part of a broader vision of practice which places equal value on a holistic vision of the needs of patients and clients, professional knowledge and intuition, and seeing patients and clients as partners in their care.
Case studies are used throughout the book to help readers link the concepts to practice. The book concludes with suggestions on how to develop a values-based approach in practice and through professional education.
Values-Based Health & Social Care sets out key debates surrounding the nature of practice which will be of interest to students and practitioners alike.
The debate between values based and evidence based care is captured excellently within this book.
A clearly presented text providing a useful resource from which to develop discussion and debate
Accessibly written and well set out this is a book that will be attractive to students. It is particularly helpful for reflecting on practice and developing understandings and constructs of practice for students engaging in reflecting writing. I particularly liked the section on intuition and believe that helps students and practitioners articulate this dimension of their practice.
A useful text to engage nursing students in contemporary EBP issues and debates.
This is an excellent overview of the historical development and current thinking around evidence-based practice, and includes a very interstig critique of it. It sets out the political, social, and philosophical contexts for the evolution of EBP very clearly and offers students, practitioners, and academics much to chew over through a detailed and even-handed consideration of topics such as professional judgement and expertise, reductionism and holism, and the burgeoning interest in values-based practice. It explores some of the limitations of the dominant positivist paradigm and offers interesting insights into the ways in which an authentic service user voice can also contribute to the evidence-base for health and social care today.
This book takes a refreshing look at the way that evidence needs to meld with professionala and human values and provides a number of different perspectives on this. The different cases provide scope for further discussion with students and staff and raise points to consider more widely in evidence-based practice implementation
Good text for students doing their degree and focusing on clinical care - relates theory and practice well
will use this on one of the specialist modules on the SCPHN programme
This is book I have been waiting for - it moves the debate on from evidence-based practice to a higher level of thinking by setting out the case, persuasively, for a values- based approach to care in health and social care. In challenging the hegemony of evidence–based practice it put forwards the need for a humanistic and holistic approach to care by drawing on politics, policy and its relevance to actual practice. The chapter on ‘Valuing professional judgement’ will strike a chord with many a professional whilst the chapter on the ‘Value and values of service users’ will be of particular interest to those who wish to engage with service user and patient expert groups. This is an essential text for under and post graduate students in health and social care and an invaluable read for commissioners of services as well as policy makers.
A very comprehensive book using a holistic and practical approach. it promotes the client and practitioner concept of partnrership and uses an objective and balance approach to evidence based practice. Very useful to the mental health students
