Practising Social Work Research

Case Studies for Learning, Second Edition

Rick Csiernik, Rachel Birnbaum (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2015-1 (ISBN)

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Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development. Adopting strategies similar to those used 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.

This second edition of Practising Social Work Research comprises twenty-three case studies that illustrate different research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, single-subject, and mixed methods. Six are new to this edition, and examine research with First Nations, organizing qualitative data, and statistics. 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 research procedures, Practising Social Work Research capitalizes on the strengths that social work students bring to assessment and problem solving.

Rick Csiernik is a professor in the School of Social Work at King's University College. Rachel Birnbaum is a distinguished university emerita professor in the School of Social Work at King's University College.

Preface
Acknowledgments　

1. INTRODUCTION

1. The Case Study Method

2. The Research Process

2. PROBLEM SOLVING: BRIEF CASE STUDIES

Introduction

Steps in the Process of Research　

Identifying the Problem

Case Study 1: Research and the Media: What Are You Being Told? Ethics: Ensuring No Harm Comes to Participants

Case Study 2: A Question of Ethics: Willowbrook

Case Study 3: Another Question of Ethics: Studying HIV

Case Study 4: Ethical Issues of Obtaining Consent to Interview Children in Post- Separation Disputes

Case Study 5: Respectful Ethical Research Practice: Working with First Nations, Inuit Innu and Metis Peoples

Preparation: Conceptualizing, Operationalizing and Sampling

Case Study 6: Understanding Ideas and Counting Them

Case Study 7: Implementing a Pilot Project: A Question of Sampling

Case Study 8: Who Do You Ask? Sampling in a Qualitative Context Research Methods

Case Study 9: Criminal Justice Issues in Social Work Research: The Search for Causality

Case Study 10: Psychometric Properties: How Should We Measure?

Case Study 11: The Validity of Research

Case Study 12: The Application of Quasi-experimental Design in Social Work Research

Case Study 13: The Power of One: Single-Case Study Design

Case Study 14: One More: Another Example of Single-Case Study Design

Case Study 15: Asking Questions Properly: An Examination of Questionnaire Design

Case Study 16: Asking Questions in Child Advocacy: Which Approach Is Best For Children?

Case Study 17: What Does it All Mean? Qualitative Interviewing with Children About Their Views and Experiences of Family Justice Professionals

Case Study 18: Q & Q: Employing Both a Qualitative and a Quantitative Approach

Case Study 19: On PAR: Engaging and Empowering Clients through Participatory Action Research Data Collection and Statistical Analysis

Case Study 20: Measuring Client Satisfaction: Do They Like Me?

Case Study 21: Adding Some Numbers

Case Study 22: Descriptive Statistics: The First Step from Guessing to Knowing

Case Study 23: Inferring What You Know: Selecting an Appropriate Statistical Test　

3. CRITIQUING RESEARCH

Introduction

Critical Analysis of Quantitative Research

Critical Analysis of Qualitative Research　

1. A Qualitative Design: Surviving the Tornado: Psychiatric Survivor Experiences of Getting, Losing, and Keeping Housing
Cheryl Forchuk, Cathy Ward-Griffin, Rick Csiernik, and Katherine Turner

Critique

2. A Quantitative Design: An Examination of Two Different Approaches to Visitation-Based Disputes in Child Custody Matters
Rachel Birnbaum

Critique　

INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2017
Zusatzinfo	31 figures
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4875-2015-8 / 1487520158
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-2015-1 / 9781487520151
Zustand	Neuware