Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice
Department
Social Work
Document Type
Book
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Description
This book is the longest standing and most widely adopted text in the field of social work research and evaluation. As stated in the book's preface, it is intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate social work students in a one-semester research methods course. Since the first edition in 1981, this edition is designed to provide social work students with the basic methodological foundation they need in order to successfully complete more advanced research courses that focus on single-system designs or program evaluations. With its customarily straightforward user-friendlywriting style by renowned educators, this edition will continue to maintain its notoriety as the premier social work research methods text. Thoroughly revised and updated, the chapters offer a wealth of new research examples and references, accessible diagrams of essential concepts and processes, and extended coverage of core social work research methods and recent developments. For example, with the inclusion of four new chapters on the evidence-based approach to social work practice, the book emphasizes how important this approach has become, and provides a rock-solid foundation for understanding how to evaluate and interpret research findings that have been derived from research studies-the minimal skills needed for evidence-based social work practitioners.
Call number in WMU's library
HV11 .S589 2008 (Waldo Library, WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)
ISBN
978-0195301526
Publication Date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
New York
Keywords
Social service, Research, Evaluation research (Social action programs), Evidence-based social work
Disciplines
Social Work
Citation for published book
Grinnell, Richard M., and Yvonne A. Unrau. Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.
Recommended Citation
Grinnell, Richard M. Jr. and Unrau, Yvonne, "Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice" (2008). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 153.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/153