Developing Research Based Social Work Practice

by Orme, Joan; Shemmings, David

• ISBN13: 9780230200456
• ISBN10: 0230200451
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This text provides social work students with the ideal overview of why research matters to good practice and what research-mindedness means in practice. Clear, succinct and focused, it will be invaluable across a range of research-oriented modules in the social work curriculum.

Author Biography

JOAN ORME is Head of the Glasgow School of Social Work, a joint school of Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, UK. She has written extensively on the contribution of feminist theory to social work and on social work education and practice.

DAVID SHEMMINGS is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at The University of East Anglia.  He is the Regional Co-ordinator for the Making Research Count initiative. 

 

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Why do we need research based social work practice?	p. 2
What is to be done to develop a research base for practice?	p. 3
The organization of the text	p. 5
Context of social work research	p. 7
What is research for?	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
Social work and social sciences	p. 9
What is research?	p. 11
Social work research	p. 17
Evidence based policy and practice	p. 19
Emancipatory and participatory research	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 26
Recommended reading	p. 27
Understanding social research	p. 28
Introduction	p. 28
Social research	p. 28
Social research and social work	p. 36
Conclusion	p. 40
Recommended reading	p. 41
Process of social work research	p. 43
Ethics and ethical approval	p. 45
Introduction	p. 45
Research governance	p. 46
Principles of codes of ethics	p. 51
Implications for developing social work research	p. 57
Conclusion	p. 60
Recommended reading	p. 62
Reviewing the literature	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
Traditional literature reviews	p. 64
Systematic review	p. 66
Critical appraisal	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 76
Recommended reading	p. 77
Methodologies and methods	p. 78
Introduction	p. 78
Methodologies, methods and desing	p. 78
Ways of knowing	p. 83
The 'Paradigm debate'	p. 84
Methodological approaches	p. 85
Bridging the gap	p. 89
Conclusion	p. 94
Recommended reading	p. 95
Statistics and quantification: how numbers help	p. 96
Introduction	p. 96
'Easing' the distinction between quantitative and qualitative methods	p. 98
What do we need to get by?	p. 101
Looking for differences in the data	p. 105
Looking for similarities	p. 107
Conclusion	p. 112
Recommended reading	p. 114
Samples and surveys	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Asking questions	p. 115
Selecting a sample	p. 118
Critically appraising a questionnaire	p. 121
The growing use of scales and inventories	p. 125
The Willingness to Care study: a brief outline of the design of a work in progress	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 136
Recommended reading	p. 137
Talk and discourse	p. 138
Introduction	p. 138
Context	p. 139
Developing qualitatively derived 'abstracted common attributes'	p. 140
Encouraging 'talk'	p. 141
Grounded theory as an analytic method	p. 143
Discourse analysis	p. 146
Conclusion	p. 154
Recommended reading	p. 155
Implications of social work research	p. 157
Who owns the research?	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
Conducting research	p. 160
Stakeholder research	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 172
Recommended reading	p. 173
Getting the message across	p. 174
Introduction	p. 174
Dissemination	p. 175
Engaging with research findings	p. 177
Utilization	p. 179
Reflective practitioner researchers	p. 181
Conclusion	p. 183
Recommended reading	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 186
Introduction	p. 186
Developing research based social work practice	p. 188
Conclusion	p. 192
Appendix: Assessment of Disorganized Attachment and Maltreatment (ADAM) Project	p. 193
Introduction	p. 193
Aim	p. 194
Using evidence-informed research into disorganized attachment	p. 194
Range of assessment-based methods	p. 195
References	p. 197
Index	p. 209
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