Research on Social Work Practice
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Comparative Study of Burnout Rate of Psychiatric Social Workers with Other Areas of Social Work Practice in Tehran
Introduction: Psychiatric social work is one of the most important areas in which social workers as a member of the treatment team provide specialized services in providing a supportive environment for people with mental disorders and their families to meet their needs and return to society. Because one of the factors influencing the quality of social services provided to social work target gro...
متن کاملSocial Work Intervention Research With Adult Cancer Patients: A Literature Review and Reflection on Knowledge-Building for Practice.
The results of a literature review of social work intervention research with adult cancer patients found only a small number of studies conducted by social work researchers. The findings of the review are presented followed by a reflective discussion on the nature of knowledge-building and research knowledge for practice. Knowledge building is considered as a continuous, negotiated process with...
متن کاملAdvancing the Africentric paradigm shift discourse: building toward evidence-based Africentric interventions in social work practice with African Americans.
For over a decade, a number of social work scholars have advocated for an Africentric paradigm shift in social work practice with African Americans; yet the paradigm shift has been slow in coming with respect to infusing Africentric theory and interventions into social work practice, education, and research. Interventions that infuse Africentric values (such as interdependence, collectivism, tr...
متن کاملFinding 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...
متن کاملThe Place of Community in Social Work Practice Research: Conceptual and Methodological Developments
Community is widely acknowledged as a fundamental aspect of social work practice and this formulation distinguishes social work from other professions. Because of this longstanding tradition, the field needs to make a greater investment in producing scientific knowledge to enable community change and to incorporate community context into practice. This type of research faces numerous challenges...
متن کاملImplementing Evidence-Based Social Work Practice
Recently, social work has been influenced by new forms of practice that hold promise for bringing practice and research together to strengthen the scientific knowledge base supporting social work intervention. The most recent new practice framework is evidence-based practice. However, although evidence-based practice has many qualities that might attract social workers to adopt it, use in pract...
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