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Social Work Research and Evaluation
Examined Practice for Action
- Elizabeth DePoy - University of Maine, USA
- Stephen Gilson - University of Maine, USA
August 2016 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Social Work Research and Evaluation applies systematically developed research knowledge to social work practice and emphasizes the “doing” of social work as a reciprocal avenue for generating research evidence and social work knowledge. Using the Examined Practice Model, authors Elizabeth G. DePoy and Stephen F. Gilson present research as the identification of a problem and then proceed to evaluate the efficacy of social work practice in its resolution. Diverse theories, actions, and sets of evidence from a range of professional and disciplinary perspectives are included to underscore the importance of integrating evaluation and practice in research.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Examined Practice
Chapter 2: Problems, Issues and Needs (What, Why, How, When, Where)
Chapter 3: Setting Goals and Objectives for Reflexive Intervention
Chapter 4: Exploring Outcomes
Chapter 5: Sharing Examined Practice to Generate Social Work Knowledge
Chapter 6: Two Design Traditions and then Mixing Them
Chapter 7: The Role of Literature in Examined Practice
Chapter 8: Questions, Hypotheses and Queries: The basis for Rigor Assessment
Chapter 9: Design in Both Traditions
Chapter 10: Setting and Protecting the Boundaries of a Study
Chapter 11: Obtaining Information
Chapter 12: Analysis
Chapter 13: Putting the Model to Work
Glossary
Index
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