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Research Methods for Social Workers (6th Edition)

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Authors: Bonnie L. Yegidis, Robert W. Weinbach
Publisher: Allyn Bacon
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.6

ISBN: 0205585582
Dewey Decimal Number: 361.32072
EAN: 9780205585588
ASIN: 0205585582

Publication Date: February 29, 2008
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Product Description
The authors are social work instructors who understand the realities of social work practice and have included many social work practice examples. The book is ideal for readers with little or no prior knowledge of research. This edition infuses content in three major areas. First, qualitative research methods are discussed and appropriate examples are offered throughout the book. Secondly, research to evaluate practice, while still the focus of the last two chapters, is discussed alongside research for building a professional knowledge base at many points throughout the book. Third, discussion of ethical issues appears throughout. It receives special emphasis in the discussions of program evaluations and single system research. For social workers who need an introduction to research methods.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Research methods July 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is very helpful to me. I'm in graduate school and have began to write my research proposal and this book has helped me a lot.

1 out of 5 stars

Impractical Viewpoint March 5, 2004
1 out of 12 found this review helpful

A very unoriginal, simplistic book, written by an academic who perhaps never spent time with real clients. Yegidis imagines seminars and reading can substitute for direct experience with real people with problems. The author does not mention any personal experience doing social work. She only observes others who do the work. Life in a university is very isolated. She'd be surprised at what happens to social workers in the field. pAlso much knowledge in social work is mostly pseudo-science. Yegidis should read F.A. Hayek's The Counter Revolution in Science: Studies in the Abuse of Reason (1979). It explains the subtle flaws and bias in her ideas. (Hayek won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974). He'd call Yegidis' work scientism which is a false subjective method. pSocial Work theory is NOT in the avant-garde of research methods. It is very atavistic and backward. Social work ideology combines a hodgepodge of theories from other fields. This makes it inclusive but incoherent. Nothing great has come out of social work research in the last 100 years. All the innovators are in psychology or communications.

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