Research for Social Workers
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Margaret Alston is Associate Professor and Wendy Bowles is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Charles Sturt University, Riverina. Margaret is director of the Centre for Rural Social Research and author of Women on the Land (University of NSW Press 1995) and Breaking Through the Grass Ceiling (Harwood 2000), and editor of Social Work Fields of Practice (Oxford 2002).
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Social work research
2. Choosing your topic area
3. Developing research questions
4. Steps in the research process
5. Sampling
6. Surveys and interviews
7. Needs identification and analysis
8. How do I evaluate my program?
9. Action research
10. Best practice evaluation
11. Other methods
12. Producing results: qualitative research
13. Producing results: quantitative research
14. Statistics for social workers
15. Influencing policy and practice
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Index