Research Skills for Social Work [Paperback]

Social Work students often find research an intimidating and complex area of study, with many struggling to understand the core concepts and their application to practice. This book presents these concepts in an accessible and user-friendly way. Key skills and methods such as literature reviews, interviews, and questionnaires are explored in detail while the underlying ethical reasons for doing good research underpin the text. For this second edition, new material on ethnography is added.

A quick, clear and interesting guide for students completing their final year research project.

Text helps to focus practitioners on the essential skills and activities underpining social work researchThis is a helpful introductory book for social work students on research methods.Excellent book - student friendly, yet challengingI like this as a core text for a short course on research in social work. Commentary on recommended further reading and websites is very useful.This book is excellent. It provides a really comprehensive and structured description of what students need to do to formulate and conduct their own social work research project. It also provides really nice examples of other student's research projects to help demonstrate how to apply different research methods in practice. I will definitely be recommending it to Master's degree students on the social work degree programme at the University of Wolverhampton. An essential text.this book contains various resources that will add value to students abilities to understand research : application of methods to projects with overviews and strategies to conducting research projects are integrated. The exploration of ethical considerations is also included. I particularly enjoyed the text that deals with reliability and bias in research; these are addressed skillfully in this bookThis has been a very useful book in helping students with their undergraduate dissertations. I foundl#'