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Shaping a science of social work : professional knowledge and identity / edited by John Brekke and Jeane Anastas ; The Islandwood Group.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--Practice.
- Social service.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 'Shaping a Science of Social Work' provides a basic framework for a social work science in terms of basic constructs, domains, and characteristics, considered within the context of academic disciplinarity and professional identity. Centered on the formation of social work science from a realist/critical-realist position, contributions from eminent scholars offer detailed and rigorous analyses of various essential issues.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Marilyn Flynn
- Preface / John Brekke and Jeane Anastas
- Acknowledgements
- Current context and the realist frame
- The science in social work roundtables : context, content, process / Susan Stone and Jerry Floersch
- The realist frame : scientific realism and critical realism / John Brekke, Jeane Anastas, Jerry Floersch, and Jeffrey Longhofer
- The foundations of social work science
- Science and identity in social work / John Brekke P
- Defining a social work science : its nature and consequences / John Brekke
- Social work science in the context of social work ideas : social work science and grand challenges / Rowena Fong and Edwina Uehara
- Values-informed research and research-informed values / Jeffrey Longhofer and Jerry Floersch
- Theory in social work science / Susan P. Kemp and Gina Miranda Samuels P
- Who knows? : critical realism, philosophy of mind, embodiment, and the science of social work / Jeane Anastas
- Essential issues in social work science
- Science and social work practice : client-provider relationships as an active ingredient promoting client change / Mary Bunn and Jeanne Marsh
- Rigor and relevance in social work science / Lawrence A. Palinkas
- Tools and training to support social work as an integrative science / Paula S. Nurius
- Concluding thoughts
- Concluding and commencing thoughts / Jeane Anastas and John Brekke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-088068-6
- 0-19-088069-4
- 0-19-088067-8
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