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Evidence based and knowledge based social work : research methods and approaches in social work research / edited by Inge M. Bryderup.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--Research.
- Social service.
- Evaluation research (Social action programs).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Denmark : Danish School of Education, Aarhus University Press ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Policymakers in welfare democracies throughout the world are raising questions as to whether welfare systems deliver what the public expects, and focus attention on increasing costs. Social workers need more evidence and knowledge about an increasing diversity of social work practices. Users of social welfare are increasingly individualized and made responsible for choosing and delivering their own service through contracts and this makes politicians, social workers and users more interested in evidence and knowledge about social services, even though these interests are often conflicting. These tendencies might be part of the reasons why the evaluation of social work practice seems to be characterized at present by a variety and diversity of research methods, approaches and theories.--publisher.
- Contents:
- Visions for Social Work Research
- Practice-Based Evidence
- Using the Life-mode Interview as Method in Evaluation of Social Work Practice
- Analyses of Essays made by Children
- Time-sampling observations
- Relational evaluation of social work practice
- Effectiveness through dialogue
- Limits of evidence in evidence-based policy and practice
- Relating science and practice in social work
- Producing knowledge for evidence-based practice and the future of social work research
- Contextualization of evidence in systematic reviews
- Objectivity in modern policy sciences.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9788779346734 (ebook)
- 9788779346734
- 8779346731
- OCLC:
- 817900351
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