Research Catalog

Title

Practitioner research : the reflexive social worker / Roger Fuller and Alison Petch.

Author

Fuller, Roger, 1944-

Publication

Buckingham [England] ; Bristol, PA : Open University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Petch, Alison.
• Petch, Alison, 1950-

Description

viii, 212 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Social workers and those in related professions are increasingly urged to be research-minded and to evaluate their practice, but there is little appropriate material to help them to do this. Practitioner Research has been designed with the busy practitioner in mind. It offers down-to-earth advice to those seeking realistic ways of studying their own agency. It demystifies research and makes its concepts and skills accessible to the inexperienced. The authors draw on their experience of running a successful annual research programme for practitioners and illustrate their case throughout with a wealth of real-life examples. They argue that the development of a research-minded profession will come about most effectively through practitioners gaining first-hand experience of research problems. Practitioner Research includes chapters on designing a study, methods of collecting and analysing data, and dissemination. It also features examples of studies successfully carried out by practitioners. It is essential reading for students, practitioners and managers in social work and related professions.

Subject

• Social service > Methodology
• Social service > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-204) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1: Practitioner research: the idea and the reality -- pt. 2: Concepts, strategies and methods for small-scale practice-based research -- pt. 3: Studies carried out by practitioners. -- Diversion at the point of entry to the Scottish children's hearings system: area team resource groups / Neil Ballantyne -- The social work role with personality-disordered clients / Anne Irvine -- Preparing or deterring? comsumer feedback on preparation groups for prospective adoptive parents in Barnardo's Family Placement Project, Edinburgh / Sue MacFadyen -- Increasing choice? the evaluation of Linburn Road Respire Care Unit, Dunfermline / Cameron MacVicar -- Parents of children with cancer: their perceptions of social work help / Jean M. Smith -- pt. 4: Afterword, appendices and bibliography.

ISBN

• 0335193234 (hard)
• 0335193226 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95008638^

OCLC

• 32432271
• SCSB-13304420

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library