Looking for a new approach to HBSE? Professors Haight and Taylor offer social work professors a new way to integrate the social work curricula. Their approach ties human behavior to practice to give students a stronger and more grounded base for their education and their professional practice. Human Behavior for Social Work Practice offers a fresh approach to this area of the social work curricula by giving students a framework for critical thinking and problem-solving. This book is truly oriented toward practice, unlike other HBSE textbooks. This integrated orientation benefits social work students by giving them strategies they can use in their careers as they face evolving social problems. This innovative book uses a developmental-ecological approach to match issues affecting social workers and their clients, including poverty, drug use, substance abuse, violence, and international social work, with portions of the life span, helping to tie theory to practice in a new way.

Human Behavior for Social Work Practice: A Developmental-Ecological Framework

Politics & Social Sciences

Wendy L. Haight

Edward H. Taylor

Social Sciences

Lyceum Books, Inc.

Mixed Methods Research for Social Work presents a step-by-step framework for constructing a mixed methods research project, along with a model for how social workers can play a sustaining role in the future of mixed methods research. In the first full length mixed methods research text for social workers, Wendy Haight and Laurel Bidwell illustrate the essential compatibility of social work and mixed method research. Rooting their argument in the historical and philosophical foundations of the profession, they explore both Jane Addams's contribution to American pragmatism and the proto-mixed methodologies employed by 20th century social worker researchers. The authors illustrate the unique opportunities that integrated methods present for understanding the complexities and nuance of contemporary social problems that are the focus of social work research. The second half of the book gives readers a clear, step-by-step guide for using mixed methodologies. Each step of the planning, design, and implementation process is illustrated by a contemporary research project and an interview with the researcher explaining their methods and rationale. This process allows readers to access the research process from both a quantitative and a qualitative stand-point, illustrating the variability and applicability of mixed methodologies to social work research. Features: Every step of the research process is illustrated by a contemporary research project and an interview with the researcher; Includes a guide to designing a mixed methods social work capstone project or dissertation and an example of a complete dissertation proposal; Detailed glossary of terms, discussion questions, and suggested readings; 2015 EPAS guide

Mixed Methods Research for Social Work: Integrating Methodologies to Strengthen Practice and Policy

Biographies & Memoirs

Laurel N. Bidwell

Professionals & Academics

Lyceum Books

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