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The Social Work Student's Research Handbook [Hardcover]

Dominique Moyse Steinberg (Author)
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July 22, 2004
Get accurate information on social work concepts—anytime, anyplace!

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.

The Social Work Student's Research Handbook is a complement to the dense and heavy research books available that cover a lot of material—and have the 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. It provides the tools you need to get through the learning process and is an essential aid for reference use with professional literature; for selecting a problem for social work study; identifying a design type; developing or selecting an instrument; developing a sampling strategy; collecting and analyzing data; and organizing, writing, disseminating, and utilizing results.

The Social Work Student's Research Handbook includes concise, usable information on:
  • problem formulation
  • working from questions or hypothesis
  • assumptions
  • design 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 remember and a self-test exercise. The Social Work Student's Research Handbook is an invaluable resource for MSW students as they apply what they’ve learned in research courses toward original research projects. It’s equally handy for social work practitioners and research instructors.

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A gift to social work students and their instructors. Clear, comprehensive, and well-written -- Margaret M. Wright, MSW, DASW, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work and Family Studies, University of British Columbia

Excellent... Invaluable... A useful reference tool, not only for students, but for practitioners who may be occasional or 'rusty' researchers. -- Gary Lounsberry, PhD, MPH, LCSW, Associate Professor, Division of Social Work, Florida Gulf Coast University

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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (July 22, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789014807
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789014801
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #966,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars vagaries of dealing with human subjects, June 5, 2009
The book is full of handy tips about how to conduct social work research. The biggest characteristic, or the hardest aspect, is that your subjects are human, as opposed to non-human animals. The vagaries of dealing with multiple instances of the human condition, and especially if some subjects have problems to begin with, are something to get experience in.

There is a very short coverage of statistics. But since the entire book is short, this was unavoidable. The maths is elementary, and you'll probably need another more thorough text on it, if you're amassing serious amounts of numerical data.
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Inside This Book (learn more)
First Sentence:
If it is time to select a study topic and you are interested in many areas, then it's time to begin problem identification, part one of problem formulation. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inferential stats, descriptive stats, null version, stat test, exploratory design, descriptive design, plausible alternative explanations, nonprobability samples, higher confidence level
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Overview of Method, New York City, Purpose Number, Test Yourself, Making Sense of Words, Self-Test Number
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