To what extent should social work practice be informed by social research?

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

19 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

02/20/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Introduction.
Part 1.
1. Age at time of adoption.
2. Inter-racial adoption.
3. Special needs/disabled children.
Part 2.
1. A clear statement of the aims of the research.
2. Aappropriate qualitative methodology.
3. Appropriate research design to address the aims of the research.
4. Appropriate recruitment strategy for the aims of the research.
5. Collection of data in a way that addressed the research issue.
6. The relationship between researcher and participants been adequately considered.
7. Have ethical issues been taken into consideration?
8. Was the data analysis sufficiently rigorous?
9. A clear statement of findings.
10. Value of the research.
Part 3.
1. Social work and a value base designed to support society's most vulnerable people.
2. Research on child development.
3. Evaluating research without evaluating theory.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

Within this work I will be looking to examine the effectiveness of using research in social work practice. I have chosen to do this by reviewing both historic and current research on the outcomes of adoption. Part 1 will consist of a literature review, detailing research findings on this subject. Part 2 will examine one chosen piece of research in more detail and I will be considering this research using the CASP questionnaire. Part 3 will provide an account of how this chosen research could have been improved, offering a critique of the nature of social research and a discussion addressing the assignment question. Finally, I will conclude with a summary of the whole dissertation. Unlike many professional disciplines, social work practice is not able to derive its knowledge from specific social work theories and research, this being due to the lack of direct social work research findings and theoretical base. Therefore, it draws its knowledge from many different disciplines in the social science field.