Social Work Research Methods: Four Alternative Paradigms - Softcover

Morris, Teresa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412916747 ISBN 13: 9781412916745

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Social Work Research Methods: Four Alternative Paradigms is the first book that expands social work research methods to include alternative models and integrate these methodologies into general social work practice. In addition to addressing ethics, diversity, and technology, author Teresa Morris also describes research methods for positivism, post-positivism, critical theory, and constructivism.     

Key Features:

• Integrates research methods into a practice model: A generalist model of social work practice adapts the stages of this model to the stages of research. Step-by-step guidance is given on how to carry out quantitative and qualitative research with illustrative examples from research projects that have used each of the paradigms.
• Offers choices in research methods: Students are given options about how to build social work practice knowledge. Depending on their worldviews, students are provided with conceptual frameworks to make decisions about which research methods to use in which situation. Not only are the theoretical rationales for such choices discussed, but the tools to carry them out are provided.
• Addresses contemporary issues: The ethics and politics of research, the researcher′s responsibility to diversity, and the use of technology at each stage of a research project are thoroughly discussed. In addition, materials are provided to comply with the Council on Social Work Education′s new accreditation standards to include detailed qualitative research in research courses.  

Intended Audience: Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students studying Qualitative Research Methods in the field of Social Work

About this title

About the Author

Teresa Morris is the chair of the social work department and director of social work programs at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). She received her M.S.W. from the University of Hawaii and her Doctorate from UC, Berkeley. She is from England via Australia and now lives in California. In England she worked as a secondary school teacher and a youth and community worker. In Australia she was a community worker, and later an academic. In 1989 she went to California to help start a new social work department and now heads that department. Her publications have been in the areas of refugee resettlement, philosophy of science, and alternative paradigm research methods. She teaches research methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412916747
• ISBN 13: 9781412916745
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352