Research on Social Work Practice – Editorial Policy

Research on Social Work Practice

Editorial: Social policy implications of research in developmental psychopathology

ducing the dualisms that exist between the clinical to encourage contributors to Child Developstudy of and theoretical research into childhood ment to consider the relevance of basic reand adult disorders, between the behavioral and bisearch and to submit investigations that utilize ological sciences, between developmental psycholknowledge to promote the welfare of children ogy and psychopathol...

Finding Fathers in Social Work Research and Practice

A comprehensive five-year review of five social work journals and one family-focused interdisciplinary journal was conducted to examine the prevalence of recent research on fathers. Despite an increase in father-focused research over the past two decades, there continues to be a significant lack of research examining fathers relative to mothers, as well as research that includes fathers as part...

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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...