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Innovations in Social Work Research
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781784501457Publication Date: 2015Featuring extended case studies of actual research projects, this book incorporates distinctive methodological features, such as approaches to participatory inquiry, and provides accounts of researcher strategies to address particular challenges, such as carrying out studies with hard to reach populations. -
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781315245546Publication Date: 2017This text takes the reader through the process of beginning and developing a research problem or question, defining their objectives and undertaking empirical or literature-based research that involves data collection, analysis, writing up and dissemination. The book also highlights and details potential obstacles, essential techniques and methods, types of theory and methodology used, and presents case studies and ongoing debates involved in qualitative social work research. -
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781040037737Publication Date: 2024This text provides an easy-to-read introduction to qualitative research methods in social work, taking into account contemporary contexts and social conditions. Drawing from a range of social work perspectives, it allows the reader to make the connection between social work values, theory and specific research methods and approaches. -
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781003306740Publication Date: 2023"This volume, which brings together chapters and journal articles published by renowned academic Ian Shaw, focuses on the practice/research relationship within social work - a theme that has preoccupied much of his writing over the last forty or more years. These pieces show the academic development of his understanding of the complexity and challenge of that relationship, as well as the shifts which have occurred in it over time." -- Provided by publisher. -
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780231550222Publication Date: 2020Statistics in Social Work guides students through concepts and procedures from descriptive statistics and correlation to hypothesis testing and inferential statistics. Besides presenting key concepts, it focuses on real-world examples that students will encounter in a social work practice.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Encyclopedia of Social Work
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Social Work Leaders Through History
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826146441Publication Date: 2018The book focuses on leaders who shaped the field of social work across modern American history and examines their lives in the context of the social and historical environment, their contributions to social work, and lessons from their experiences that are still relevant to social work today. -
A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780198796688Publication Date: 2018-03-18This dictionary provides A-Z definitions of terms from the broad field of social care. Accessible coverage of social work theories, methods, policies, organizations, and statutes, as well as key terms from interdisciplinary topics such as health and education, make this an ideal reference for students as well as qualified social workers.
