Research Methods for Social Work - Hardcover

Research Methods for Social Work

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Preface. Editorial note. I. Social work research 1. Research methods for social work need for paradigm shift/Murli Desai. 2. Dimensions of research methods for social work/D.K. Lal Das. 3. Social work intervention in psychosomatic pain disorder/Sushma Batra and Tushti Bhardwaj. 4. Clinical social work research process/Anna Mathew. 5. Effect of value clarification on orientation towards vision and values/Kalpana Sampath. 6. Impact of child mental health orientation on school teachers/Mary Venus Joseph. 7. Social work research ethics select perspectives/J.S. Gunavathy. 8. Social work research curriculum in select American Universities a review/Sudershan Pasupuleti. 9. Developing research interest among social work trainees problems and challenges/Nagmani Rao. II. Data analysis and interpretation 10. Content analysis a method in social science research/B. Devi Prasad. 11. Computer assisted quantitative data analysis and interpretation/T. Saraswati and D.K. Lal Das. III. Research in fields of social work 12. Research in correctional social work with social work intervention/V.V. Devasia. 13. Significance of social work training to human resource personnel/Ranjana Sehgal. IV. Research strategies 14. Qualitative research in social work an overview/Surendra Singh. 15. Social work and qualitative research natural allies/S. Raja Samuel. 16. Case study method in social work research/B. Vijayalakshmi. 17. Research and action in field action projects an example of Ankur/Anita Panot. Contributors. Research methods for social work have undergone several changes in the recent past particularly in the areas of research designs techniques of data collection analysis of data and computer application in social work research. Against this background a seminar was organised for social work educators researchers and practitioners with a specific objective to bring research closer to social work practice and to find from the research methodologies used by social scientists those methods which can be best adopted in the context of social work. The papers selected for this volume cover four broad areas of research the first section consists of nine papers which are descriptive accounts of research methods used with social work interventions the second section consists of two papers on data analysis and interpretations the third section includes two papers which provide accounts of different specializations and the last section consists of four papers dealing with different research strategies like qualitative research case study method and action research. The book will give readers an insight into the various research methods used in different areas of social work and need for shift in focus. 318 pp. Artikel-Nr. 69829

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