the practice of research in social work 4th edition ebook

The Practice of Research in Social Work

Research Methods in Social Work

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CHAPTER 1. Science, Society, and Social Work Research

Chapter 2. the process of social work research, chapter 3. ethical and scientific guidelines for social work research, chapter 4. measurement, chapter 5. sampling, chapter 6. causation and research design, chapter 7. group experimental designs, chapter 8. single-subject design, chapter 9. survey research, chapter 10. qualitative methods, chapter 11. qualitative data analysis, chapter 12. secondary data analysis and mixed methods, chapter 13. evaluation research, chapter 14. quantitative data analysis, chapter 15. reporting research.

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• New and expanded content on qualitative methods and analysis, community-based participatory research, and conversation analysis reflects the latest advances in the field.
• Coverage of emerging research techniques includes discussions of ethical issues and Internet research, expanded material on the use of electronic surveys and cell phones for research, and new coverage of qualitative methods, such as online interviewing and netnography.
• New examples of research in the real-world settings of social work practice address such topics as homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse, poverty, aging, the methods used and the challenges confronted by researchers.
• Updated and expanded coverage of implications for evidence-based practice , including the steps associated with the practice decision model and the challenges of implementing evidence-based practice at the agency level, prepares students for real-world practice.
• Reorganized and expanded coverage of mixed methods in a new Chapter 12 is supported by social work examples ranging from practice and policy assessment to measurement validity.
• Expanded coverage of secondary data analysis includes coverage of how to access sources, how to assess the utility of a data sets, and the ethical issues associated with analysis and big data.
• New appendices cover questions to ask when reading a qualitative research article.

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• Each chapter focuses on a particular substantive research question to underscore the strong and weak points of actual research projects.
• Methods are presented within a unified conceptual framework of validity to help students critically evaluate social work research articles and practice.
• Real-world examples demonstrate the methods used by social work researchers to discover the efficacy of interventions, identify needs, and test the impact of social policies.
• Ethics is introduced in an early chapter (Chapter 3) and discussed in concluding sections in every chapter.
• Culture and diversity is discussed within each chapter to address questions about social diversity in every stage of the research process.
• An engaging presentation of qualitative methods appropriate to the field of social work includes coverage of Photovoice and its applicability to social justice.
• Extensive review exercises, presented in a variety of formats, help students master the key concepts of every chapter.
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The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.

• ISBN-13 978-1506304267
• Edition 4th
• Publisher SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date January 14, 2016
• Part of series Handbook of School Improvement
• Language English
• File size 14292 KB
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Russell K. Schutt , PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston; Clinical Research Scientist I at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He completed his BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his postdoctoral fellowship in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University. In addition to co-authoring The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (with Ronet Bachman), he is the author of Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research and Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century, and co-author of Making Sense of the Social World (with Dan Chambliss), Research Methods in Psychology (with Paul G. Nestor), The Practice of Research in Social Work and Fundamentals of Social Work Research (with Ray Engel), and Research Methods in Education (with Joseph Check), all with SAGE Publications, as well as author of Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness and Organization in a Changing Environment, coeditor of Social Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society and of The Organizational Response to Social Problems, and coauthor of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. He has authored and coauthored more than 65 peer-reviewed journal articles as well as many book chapters and research reports on homelessness, mental health, service preferences and satisfaction, organizations, and the sociology of law. His current and most recent research includes a $200,000 National Science Foundation-funded study of the social impact of the pandemic in Boston, with collaborators at the Center for Survey Research (UMass Boston) and Northeastern University, a $3.8 million randomized comparative effectiveness trial of two socially-oriented interventions to improve community functioning among persons diagnosed with serious mental illness, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with collaborators at the Harvard Medical School, and a $1 million Veterans Health Administration-funded study of peer support with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School  and the VA.  His past research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fetzer Institute, and state agencies. Details are available at https://blogs.umb.edu/russellkschutt/ .

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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01B4WJP8K
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ SAGE Publications, Inc; 4th edition (January 14, 2016)
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 14, 2016
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 14292 KB
• Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
• Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
• Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
• X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
• Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 494 pages
• #195 in Social Science Research
• #373 in Social Work (Kindle Store)
• #779 in Social Sciences Research

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