Full Description
Praise for earlier editions:
"I have been using this textbook as a required reading for my research class since 2004 because I found the text's coverage of research concepts to be in-depth, and easy to read without the technicalities."
- Ziblim Abukari, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Westfield State University
"Applied Social Research... is thorough, well organized, and clear, making it highly appreciated by my students."
-Barry Loneck, PhD, School of Social Welfare, SUNY Albany
The tenth edition of this classic text demonstrates how research skills are developed and used to facilitate best social work practices and improve client outcomes. New to this edition are additional examples and practitioner profiles demonstrating research-based practice, problem-solving extended vignettes, and broad inclusion of the 2015 CSWE competencies. The tenth edition also delivers directives for incorporating evidence-based practices into daily practice. Additional highlights include greater emphasis on conducting practice-informed research with minority and other disadvantaged populations.
This engaging text for MSW and BSW students helps readers develop logic-based research skills that prepare them to be scientific practitioners who can use research-informed practice to improve clients' lives. Emphasized throughout is the application of research methods in assessing and monitoring client functioning and outcomes. Additional features include robust instructor resources. The print version of the book includes free, searchable, digital access to the entire contents!
New to the Tenth Edition:
Practitioner Profiles recounting interviews with actual practitioners
Evaluating Competency boxes highlighting the connections between text concepts and CSWE competencies
Emphasis on conducting research with disadvantaged populations
Enhanced instructor resources including updated test bank with multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions, and PowerPoints
Key Features:
Demonstrates the crucial connection between research and practice to improve client outcomes
Develops critical thinking and logic-based research skills
Helps students to measure and monitor client functions and outcomes and critically evaluate practices, programs, and services
Emphasizes scaling measures to assess client functioning
Includes unique chapter on preparing and presenting data
Contents
Chapter 1: Research in the Human Services
Chapter 2: The Logic of Social Research
Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Social Research
Chapter 4: Problem Formulation: Developing a Well-built Answerable Question
Chapter 5: The Process of Measurement
Chapter 6: Sampling
Chapter 7: Survey Research
Chapter 8: Analysis of Available Data
Chapter 9: Field Research and Qualitative Methods
Chapter 10: Experimental Research
Chapter 11: Single-System Designs
Chapter 12: Evaluation Research
Chapter 13: Scaling
Chapter 14: Data Analysis I: Data Preparation and Presentation
Chapter 15: Data Analysis II: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Chapter 16: Analysis of Qualitative Data
Chapter 17: Writing for Research: Grant Proposals and Report Writing
