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The SAGE Handbook of Social Work Research
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The SAGE Handbook of Social Work Research

First Edition
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600 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

The SAGE Handbook of Social Work Research provides a comprehensive, internationally-focused account of leading social work research, offering an original and defining statement on contemporary theory and practice within the field. The groundbreaking Handbook engages critically with the nature and role of social work research and evaluation in contemporary societies around the globe, and asks four key questions:

  • What is the role and purpose of social work research?
  • What contexts shape the practice and purpose of social work research?
  • How can we maximize the quality of the practice of social work research?
  • How can the aims of social work in its varied domains be met through social work research?

Ranging over local, national, and international issues, and exploring questions of theory and practice, this is a diverse and constructively organized overview of the field. It will quickly be recognized as a benchmark in the expanding field of social work research, setting the agenda for future work in the arena.

Ian Shaw, Katharine Briar-Lawson, Joan Orme, Roy Ruckdeschel
Mapping Social Work Research: Pasts, Presents and Futures
 
PART ONE: PURPOSES OF SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
f004 Nigel Parton and Stuart Kirk
The Nature and Purposes of Social Work
Annette Boaz and James Blewett
Providing Objective, Impartial Evidence for Decision Making and Public Accountability
Joan Orme and Katharine Briar-Lawson
Theory and Knowledge about Social Problems to Enhance Policy Development
f004 Daniel Gredig and Jeanne C Marsh
Improving Intervention and Practice
Susan White and Gerhard Riemann
Researching Our Own Domains: Research as Practice in ‘Learning Organizations’
f004 Bob Pease
Challenging the Dominant Paradigm: Social Work Research, Social Justice and Social Change
 
PART TWO: CONTEXTS FOR SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
f004 Ian Shaw and Joan Zlotnik
Research and Government
Haluk Soydan
Politics and Values in Social Work Research
f004 Richard Hugman
Social Work Research and Ethics
Steve Trevillion
From Social Work Practice to Social Work Research: An Emergent Approach to a Basic Problem
Mikko Mantysaari and Richard Weatherley
Theory and Theorizing: Intellectual Contexts of Social Work Research
Roy Ruckdeschel and Adrienne Chambon
The Uses of Social Work Research
f004 Ian Shaw
Places in Time: Contextualizing Social Work Research
 
PART THREE: THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
Jackie Powell and Blanca Ramos
The Practice of Social Work Research
Ian Shaw
Logics, Qualities and Quality of Social Work Research
Geraldine Macdonald and Jennie Popay
Evidence and Practice: The Knowledge Challenge for Social Work
Jane F Gilgun
Methods for Enhancing Theory and Knowledge About Problems, Policies, and Practice
Carmen Lavoie, Judy MacDonald and Elizabeth Whitmore
Methods for Understanding, Learning and Social Justice
Jennifer C Greene, Peter Sommerfeld, and Wendy L Haight
Mixing Methods in Social Work Research
f004 Katharine Briar-Lawson, Robyn Munford and Jackie Sanders
Challenges and Directions in the Practice of Social Work Research
 
PART FOUR: DOMAINS OF SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
f004 Linda Briskman
Nation
Karen Staller and Tracie Mafile'o
Community
Mary Ruffalo, June Thoburn and Paula Allen-Meares
Children, Young People and Families
f004 Paul Bywaters and Michael Ungar
Health and Well-being
Sally French and John Swain
Disability
f004 Peter Huxley, Michael Sheppard and Martin Webber
Mental Health
f004 Philip McCallion
Social Work Research and Aging
Fergus McNeill, Dennis Bracken and Alan Clarke
Social Work in Criminal Justice
Joan Orme, Roy Ruckdeschel and Katharine Briar-Lawson
Challenges and Directions in Social Work Research and Social Work Practice

This is a very comprehensive book which offers a detailed exploration of social work research both nationally and internationally and explores its application in practice. It will be a very useful teaching resource for the research methods and appraising social work research modules of the BA Social Work Programme.

Miss Jacky Foster
Social Work , Cornwall College
July 16, 2013
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Chapter One

Chapter Two


Ian Shaw

Dr. Ian Shaw is S R Nathan Professor of Social Work at National University of Singapore and Professor Emeritus at the University of York, England. He was the first chair of the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA) and a founder editor of the journal Qualitative Social Work. He has authored almost 100 peer-reviewed papers, more than 20 books, 60 book chapters, and various research reports. He has written extensively in the journals on issues arising from the relationship between social work and sociology over the last century. His more recent books include Social Work Science (2016) and Research and the Social Work Picture ... More About Author

Katharine Briar-Lawson

Katharine Briar-Lawson is an experienced academic administrator and national expert on family focused practice and child and family policy. Among her books (co-authored) are Family-Centered Policies & Practices: International Implications (2001) and (co-edited) Innovative Practices with Vulnerable Children and Families (2001). She has recently co-edited two volumes on Evaluation Research in Child Welfare, (2002) and Charting the Impacts of University-Child Welfare Collaboration, (2003). She is a member of the Council on Social Work Education Practice Commission; she also serves as associate editor for the New Global Development: Journal of... More About Author

Joan Orme

Joan Orme began her social work career as a probationofficer working first in Sheffield and then Southampton. Her first academic post at the University of Southampton was specifically for training probation officers. She continued in generic social work education, with a specific interest in probation education and training, at Southampton until she took up her post at Glasgow .... More About Author

Roy Ruckdeschel

Professor Ruckdeschel is Co-Editor and Co-Founding Editor, along with Ian Shaw of the UK, of the Sage journal Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice. He is a current member and past chair of the University-wide Qualitative Research Committee. He has also recently chaired the School of Social Work Rank & Tenure Committee (1998-2002) and the Family Concentration (1999-2002) and has served on and/or chaired numerous School committees. Professor Ruckdeschel currently serves on the Advisory Committee of Ethics Across the Curriculum (1998-present) and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Health Care Ethics (1997... More About Author

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