Social Work Practice Research for the Twenty-First Century / / ed. by Philip McCallion, Anne Fortune, Katharine Briar-Lawson.

Social work professionals must demonstrate their effectiveness to legislators and governments, not to mention clients and incoming practitioners. A thorough evaluation of the activities, ethics, and outcomes of social work practice is critical to maintaining investment and interest in the profession...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 4 illus., 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Tribute
  • Part One: A Historical Mapping of Social Work Practice Research
  • 1. Critical Infrastructures for Social Work Practice Research
  • 2. Empirical Practice in Social Work
  • 3. Qualitative Social Work Practice Research
  • Part Two: Status of Evidence- Based Practice in Selected Areas of Social Work
  • 4. Group Work Research
  • 5. Social Development Interventions Have Extensive, Long-Lasting Effects
  • 6. Advances in Children's Mental Health
  • 7. Evidence-Based Services to Children in a Conservative Environment
  • 8. Social-Behavioral Research in Aging and the Social Work Research Agenda
  • 9. A Culturally Grounded Approach to Drug Use Prevention with Latino Children and Youth
  • 10. Development of Intervention Models with "New Overwhelmed Clients"
  • 11. Pulling Together Research Studies to Inform Social Work Practice
  • Part three: An Example of Empirical Model Development and Dissemination
  • 12. The Intellectual Legacy of William J. Reid
  • 13. Task-Centered Practice in the United States
  • 14. Task-Centered Practice in Great Britain
  • 15. Task-Centered Practice in the Netherlands
  • 16. Task-Centered Practice in Germany
  • 17. Task-Centered Practice in Switzerland
  • 18. Task-Centered Practice in Norway
  • 19. Task-Centered Practice in Australia
  • 20. Task-Centered Practice in Japan
  • 21. Task-Centered Practice in South Korea
  • 22. Task-Centered Practice in Hong Kong
  • 23. Task-Centered Practice in Taiwan
  • Part four: Future Directions
  • 24. The Question of Questions
  • 25. Building Capacity for Intervention Research
  • 26. Building Evidence-Based Intervention Models
  • Index