Research Methods and Statistics

Provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies. This book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive and detailed understanding of advanced quantitative methods and to provide guidance on technical writing.

This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Showcasing the breadth and depth of exemplary social work feminist research, the editors argue that social work's unique focus on praxis, daily proximities to privilege and oppression, concern with social change and engagement with participatory forms of inquiry place social workers in a unique position to both learn from and contribute to broader social science and humanities discourse associated with feminist research.

Featuring extended case studies of actual research projects, the book provides an overview of a number of central features and qualities of social work research. It incorporates both distinctive methodological features, such as approaches to participatory inquiry, and provides accounts of researcher strategies to address particular challenges, such as carrying out studies with hard to reach populations. This book combines important methodological insights with pragmatic guidance on commonly experienced problems and how these challenges can be overcome.

With the constant exchange of international information now a permanent condition in the world, social work scholars and students must be sensitive to the need for knowledge sharing between countries as well as to issues involved in obtaining and utilizing international knowledge. Yet until now, no book has juxtaposed these two growing streams of emphasis. In this clearly written volume, Tony Tripodi and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi fill that gap, presenting readers with the many prospects and great potential for international social work research.

This practical "how to" guide integrates a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of literature, alongside a wealth of the authors' combined research experience, into a framework for behavioral health and other investigators concerned with successful participant recruitment and retention in intervention and evaluation research studies.

Comprises twenty-three case studies that illustrate different research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, single-subject, and mixed methods. Six are new to this edition, and examine research with First Nations, organizing qualitative data, and statistics. Through these real-life examples, the authors demonstrate the processes of conceptualization, operationalization, sampling, data collection and processing, and implementation.

In the new models presented by Bloom and Britner, the client is not a passive participant in the process and the researcher is instructed on how to engage the client in research design, knowledge-building, research design and evaluation. This book guides the learner through an eight-step process of single-system designs.

Offers a conceptual and software-driven approach to understanding linear regression analysis, with only a slight familiarity with algebra required even for self-study. Social work and other social and behavioral science students and researchers will find this to be an accessible, yet thorough, introduction to the linear regression model.

Instills in students an appreciation for science-informed practice as a means of evaluating client outcomes. With a "learn by doing" approach, author Reginald York takes readers on a step-by-step journey through the process of conducting research. Each chapter features not only the hands-on approach to producing research, but also a meticulously prioritized organization of methodology and practical chapter exercises that help reinforce methods mastery. Using their own data, students engage in research tasks where they apply knowledge in realistic and pertinent ways.