Roger Smith

Doing Social Work Research

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 ethical principles that lie at the discipline's core.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780335235643
• ISBN-10: 0335235646
• Artikelnr.: 26551724

Autorenporträt

Roger Smith teaches and researches in social work at De Montfort University, UK. He worked in residential care before qualifying as a social worker in 1980. He then joined the Probation Service, working mainly with young offenders and subsequently held a policy development role with a national children's organisation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Drivers, demands and constraints in social work research
Chapter 2'What works': evidence for practice?
Chapter 3Critical perspectives: the view from outside
Chapter 4Leading the Way? Social Work Research and Service Users
Chapter 5From methodology to method: quantity and evidence
Chapter 6Critical and interpretive approaches: what's going on here?
Chapter 7Committed Research: models and methods
Chapter 8Making it Happen
Chapter 9Putting It All Together
Chapter 10The Value of Social Work Research
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