Publisher's Synopsis
- 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 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
- How research knowledge can be applied to practice
