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Research is as critical to social work practice as individual and group counseling skills, policy analysis, or community development. Using an approach similar to those adopted in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice and in so doing, promotes an understanding and appreciation of the research process to social work students.
Sixteen case studies adapted from actual events and case files illustrate different research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, single subject, and mixed methods. Through these real-life examples, the authors demonstrate the processes of conceptualization, operationalization, sampling, data collection and processing, and implementation. Designed to help the student and practitioner become more comfortable with the research process, Practicing Social Work Research uses a student-centered approach that capitalizes on the strengths that social work students bring to assessment and problem solving.
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1 Introduction
The Case Study Method 3
The Research Process 9
2 Problem Solving: Brief Case Studies
Introduction: Steps in the Process of Research 17
Case Studies
1 Research and the Media: What Are You Being Told? 20
2 A Question of Ethics: Willowbrook 32
3 Another Question of Ethics: Studying HIV 41
4 Understanding Ideas and Counting Them 52
5 Implementing a Pilot Project: A Question of Sampling 61
6 Who Do You Ask? Sampling in a Qualitative Context 73
7 Criminal Justice Issues in Social Work Research: The Search for Causality 79
8 Psychometric Properties: How Should We Measure? 91
9 The Validity of Research 103
10 The Application of Quasi-Experimental Design in Social Work Research 115
11 The Power of One: Single-Case Study Design 123
12 One More: Another Example of Single-Case Study Design 135
13 Asking Questions Properly: An Examination of Questionnaire Design 142
14 Asking Questions in Child Advocacy: Which Approach is Best for Children? 169
15 Q & Q: Employing Both a Qualitative and a Quantitative Approach 180
16 On PAR: Engaging and Empowering Clients through Participatory Action Research 187
17 Measuring Client Satisfaction: Do They Like Me? 205
3 Critiquing Research
Introduction 215
Critical Analysis of Quantitative Research 217
Critical Analysis of Qualitative Research 219
1 A Qualitative Design. Surviving the Tornado: Psychiatric Survivor Experiences of Getting, Losing, and Keeping Housing Katherine Turner Turner, Katherine 222
Critique 234
2 A Quantitative Design. An Examination of Two Different Approaches to Visitation-Based Disputes in Child Custody Matters Rachel Birnbaum Birnbaum, Rachel 237
Critique 262
Index 270
Overview
Research is as critical to social work practice as individual and group counseling skills, policy analysis, or community development. Using an approach similar to those adopted in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice and in so doing, promotes an understanding and appreciation of the research process to social work students.
Sixteen case studies adapted from actual events and case files illustrate different research approaches, ...