Assessing Texas School Social Work Practice: Findings from the First Statewide Conference Survey

Women's Knowledge of and Support for Abortion Restrictions in Texas: Findings from a Statewide Representative Survey.

CONTEXT States have passed numerous laws restricting abortion, and Texas passed some of the most restrictive legislation between 2011 and 2013. Information about women's awareness of and support for the laws' provisions could inform future debates regarding abortion legislation. METHODS Between December 2014 and January 2015, some 779 women aged 18-49 participated in an online, statewide repr...

Texas Hunting Leases: Statewide and Regional Summary

The selling of hunting leases by private landowners has been regulated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) since 1925. However, a comprehensive examination of leasing activity and wildlife management practices used by landowners who lease lands for hunting has never been conducted. This study had three objectives: (1) to develop procedures to regularly monitor trends and changes i...

British National Conference on Social Work

in our offices. He spoke of the slow retail peddling of ideas and gave us a sense of time and space for developing our work Lest we became too involved in individual problems, came Dr. Alice Stewart's description of some of the aims of the Oxford Institute of Social Medicine. Her field-work study of a " population at risk such as the Northampton boot-trade which has a high incidence of tubercul...

Research on Social Work Practice

Evaluation and Social Work Practice

This book is a collection of thirteen edited chapters from different contributors, each presenting their perspective on the nature of evaluation and research and their application to practice. The editors aim to provide a ‘comprehensive treatment of the central issues confronting evaluation in social work’, however, their claims that it is likely to appeal to students, researchers and practitio...