The Social Work Student's Research Handbook FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Social Work Student's Research Handbook keeps the information you need on essential classroom concepts and principles right at your fingertips. Practical and easy to use, this comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and bolts of social work research. The handbook is a perfect resource to help students integrate research into projects, theses, and dissertations, and to help practitioners refresh, review, and organize their professional processes.
SYNOPSIS
Keep the basics of social work research right where you need them!
The Social Work Student's Research Handbook keeps the information you
needon essential classroom concepts and principles right at your
fingertips.Practical and easy to use, this comprehensive handbook provides
instantaccess to the nuts and bolts of social work research. The handbook is
aperfect resource to help students integrate research into projects,
theses,and dissertations, and to help practitioners refresh, review, and
organizetheir professional processes.
The Social Work Student's Research Handbook is a complement to the
denseand heavy research books available that cover a lot of material�and
havethe pages to prove it! It helps you sort through the narrative,
details,and examples to get straight to the heart of each issue when it
counts. Itprovides the tools you need to get through the learning process
and is anessential aid for reference use with professional literature; for
selectinga problem for social work study; identifying a design type;
developing orselecting an instrument; developing a sampling strategy;
collecting andanalyzing data; and organizing, writing, disseminating, and
utilizingresults.
The Social Work Student's Research Handbook includes concise,
usableinformation on:
problem formulationworking from questions or
hypothesisassumptionsdesign options (exploratory, descriptive,
experimental)evaluations (practice, program)data analysis (qualitative,
quantitative)and much more.
In addition, each chapter ends with a summary of major points to
rememberand a self-test exercise. The Social Work Student's Research
Handbook is aninvaluable resource for MSW students as they apply what
they�ve learned inresearch courses toward original research projects. It�s
equally handy forsocial work practitioners and research
instructors.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Margaret M. Wright
The publication of this handbook is A GIFT TO SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS AND
THEIR INSTRUCTORS. The book is so CLEAR, COMPREHENSIVE, AND WELL-WRITTEN
that it will appeal to students attempting to cope with 'research anxiety'
and to instructors trying to de-escalate that anxiety. It ADDRESSES THE
ISSUES OF CONCERN TO STUDENTS UP FRONT AND WITH ENGAGING CLARITY USING
RELEVANT, PRACTICAL EXAMPLES. Dr. Steinberg demystifies the practice of
research and encourages students to see research as a collaborative,
curiosity-driven process. The book moves logically through question
formulation, research design, and research methodologies in a simple but
not simplistic fashion that engages the reader and conveys all of the
necessary information. — MSW, DASW, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Social
Work and Family Studies, University of British Columbia
Gary Lounsberry
EXCELLENT. . . . INVALUABLE for quick reference while designing and
reviewing research products. . . . A USEFUL REFERENCE TOOL, NOT ONLY FOR
STUDENTS, but for practitioners who may be occasional or 'rusty'
researchers. I believe that the chapters on design options and the
definitions of statistical tests will be continually referenced as students
operationalize their research projects, practitioners design evaluative
studies, and grant writers develop proposals. I also predict that students
will use this handbook to clarify the more involved discussions of design
and statistics contained in many texts. — PhD, MPH, LCSW, Associate Professor, Division of Social
Work, Florida Gulf Coast University
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