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Applying research in social work practice
- Author:
- CORBY Brian
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 218p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
What are the key issues and concerns raised by the debate about making social work more of an evidence-based profession? How is it possible to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of specific research projects? How can research findings be applied in social work practice? In an era where professions are increasingly being questioned and made more accountable for their actions, social workers are required to relate their activities more directly to research findings than ever before. In the modern evidence-based practice debate, there are many claims (and counter-claims) about the benefits of research and about its applicability to social work practice. There are also major disputes about what type of research is most valid to the concerns of social work. This book tackles these debates with a view to clarifying the issues for students and practitioners in social work and social care fields. In particular, the book examines: the political and ideological disputes surrounding the evidence-base debate in social work; a wide range of research into social work with children, older people, mental illness and disability; the three main paradigms of social research - objectivist, subjectivist and critical; and how research knowledge can be applied to practice.
Evaluating the impact of intergenerational activities on elders' engagement and expressiveness levels in two settings
- Authors:
- XAVERIUS Pamela K., MATHEWS R. Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 1(4), 2003, pp.53-69.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
This study evaluated the impact of intergenerational activities on elders' engagement and expressiveness levels in two settings. Study 1 was conducted with 22 well elders at a senior center and approximately 15 children from a nearby grade school. Data were collected using a momentary time sampling procedure, and inter-observer reliability averaged 88% (ranging from 78% to 97%). Elders were significantly more engaged (t (85) = 4.60, p > .001) and expressive (t (85) = 5.55, p > .001) in the treatment condition than the control condition. Study 2 was conducted with 25 older adults diagnosed with dementia, living in a special care unit. Twenty-eight second-graders were in the experimental group and 32 second-graders were in the comparison group. A momentary time sampling procedure was used to observe engagement, expressiveness, and inappropriate behavior levels. Inter-observer agreement averaged 94% (ranged from 85% to 100%). Elders were significantly more engaged in the structured activities with children than the structured activities without children, and significantly more engaged in structured activities without children than the no-activity condition, F(1) = 60.1; p > .01. Elders were also significantly more expressive in structured activities with children than the structured activities without children, and significantly more expressive in the structured activities without children than the no-activity condition, F(1) = 26.5; p = 01. Further, there was no significant increase in inappropriate behaviors between any condition, F(1) = .322; p = .57. The analysis of variance regarding children's attitudes towards the elderly showed no significant differences whether they did or did not participate in the intergenerational activities (F 3.5, p < .05), with both groups maintaining positive attitudes of elders. These results reflect the importance of offering intergenerational activities to well and institutionalized elders as well as to children. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Enabling research: people with learning difficulties. Elderly people. Young children
- Authors:
- SIMONS Ken, RICHARDS Sally, HAYDEN Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 12(2), 1994, pp.4-8.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Workshop leaders were tasked with presenting a session about particular issues arising when carrying out consumer research with different groups of people. The groups of people under consideration were people with learning difficulties, older people and young people. Reports on the issues explored in the different workshops.
Critical issues in social research: power and prejudice
- Editors:
- HOOD Suzanne, MAYALL Berry, OLIVER Sandy
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 186p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Addresses questions such as: whose interests are served by research; for whom is it undertaken; what research methods are appropriate; and how can those researched find a voice in the research process. To illustrate these questions, contains papers on: children and childhood; children in developing countries; learning difficulties and research; disturbed young people; women's private past; black and minority ethnic health; frail elderly people; gay men; the targets of health promotion; and users of health services.
Social work research with minority and oppressed populations: methodological issues and innovations
- Editors:
- POTOCKY Miriam, RODGERS-FARMER Antoinette Y.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 130p.,bibliog. SERIES
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
Contains papers on: facilitating the participation of gay and bisexual men in intervention and research; methodological issues when developing prevention programmes for low income young people from urban areas; methodological issues in social work research with depressed women of colour; conceptual and methodological considerations in rsearch with black and minority ethnic older people; and applying Rasch Analysis to exploring the differences in depression between African-American and white children.
The working of social work
- Editors:
- CHEETHAM Juliet, KAZI Mansoor A.F.
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents recent research of relevance to key issues in social work policy and practice and promotes the understanding and use of research methods appropriate for academic, practitioner and agency-based research. Includes chapters on: researching the effectiveness of a small-scale community-based project for sex offenders; the rights and wrongs of social work with children and young people; a pluralistic approach to researching community care assessments; elder abuse within a residential setting; evaluating outcome decisions; experience of single case evaluation in a small agency; evaluation of social work practice in relation to poverty issues; applying the lessons of qualitative research to the content of social work; promoting evaluation research on social work practice; and putting single case evaluation into practice.