Doing social work research

This accessible book is based on the author's extensive practical experience of carrying out and teaching research in the social work field. Social work research is shown to be both a distinctive academic enterprise and a task that can be accomplished effectively in line with the values and eth...

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Main Author: Smith, Roger (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Maidenhead, England : Open University Press , c2009
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Drivers, demands and constraints in social work research -- 2. 'What works': evidence for practice? -- 3. Critical perspectives: the view from outside -- 4. Leading the way? Social work research and service users -- 5. From methodology to method: quantity and evidence -- 6. Critical and interpretive approaches: what's going on here? -- 7. Committed research: models and methods -- 8. Making it happen -- 9. Putting it all together -- 10. The value of social work research 
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