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Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work: Making Social Work Count

Autor Barbra Teater, John Devaney, Donald Forrester
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2016
Quantitative research makes a very important contribution to both understanding and responding effectively to the problems that social work service users face. In this unique and authoritative text, a group of expert authors explore the key areas of data collection, analysis and evaluation and outline in detail how they can be applied to practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137400260
ISBN-10: 1137400269
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Red Globe Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Supported by carefully selected pedagogical features, including 'research in practice' case examples to demonstrate relevance to social work, practice exercises which test students' knowledge, critical discussion questions to encourage students to critique the use of quantitative methods

Notă biografică

Barbra Teater is Associate Professor in Social Work at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA.John Devaney is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Queen's University Belfast, UK.Donald Forrester is Professor of Child and Family Social Work at Cardiff University, UK.Jonathan Scourfield is Professor of Social Work at Cardiff University, UK.John Carpenter is Professor of Social Work & Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK.

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Why numbers matter in social work Chapter 3 Who is being studied? Chapter 4 What is being studied? Chapter 5 How to describe issues using numbers Chapter 6 How to know if a service makes a difference Chapter 7 How to use numbers to describe a sample Chapter 8 How to make a decision with confidence Chapter 9 How to know if two variables are related Chapter 10 What is the effect of one or more variables on another variable? Chapter 11 What are the key elements of ethical quantitative research? Chapter 12 How to do quantitative research without collecting new data Chapter 13 How to combine qualitative and quantitative methods in social work research.