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Finding and Evaluating Evidence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

Finding and Evaluating Evidence

"This pocket guide provides a concise overview of how to complete a systematic review, and criteria that should be used for assessing the quality of existing reviews. It examines evidence-based practice, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis."--WorldCat.

Finding and Evaluating Evidence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 103

Finding and Evaluating Evidence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This pocket guide is an introduction to evidence-based practice systematic reviews, and meta-analysis for social work students practitioners, and scholars. It provides a concise overview of how to complete a systematic review and criteria for assessing the quality of existing reviews.

Effective Meetings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Effective Meetings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This book shows that the value of group decision making lies in its ability to bring together people with a variety of different expertise and experiences. These techniques are applied to problems such as health care, homlessness and family violence.

Social Workers' Desk Reference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1477

Social Workers' Desk Reference

"What makes the profession of social work distinctive and exciting? How do social workers differ from sociologists, psychologists, and other counselors, advocates, and helping professionals? Which degrees, licenses, and credentials can social workers obtain? And in what kinds of work, or fields of practice, can social workers specialize? All these questions are worth considering when one feels led to become a professional social worker"--

Key Concepts in Measurement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Key Concepts in Measurement

Measurement is necessary for building and testing theory, specifying problems, and defining goals. It is arguably one of the most important and diffcult tasks in social work research. This book serves as a guide for developing, selecting, and using measures in social work research.

Practice of Case Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Practice of Case Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: SAGE

The Practice of Case Management in the Human Services offers a succinct yet comprehensive guide to carrying out a case manager's responsibilities. The author explores assessment of the service needs of the client, facilitating the client's contact with the appropriate institutions and services, monitoring the quality of services provided to the client, and taking action when the client's needs are not met. He also considers the therapeutic role required when needs are not met because the problems are indigenous to the client. Providing an integrated look at practice technologies applicable to a variety of practice areas, the volume is appropriate for both preservice and inservice education in the field of human servi

Mixed Methods Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Mixed Methods Research

"In this pocket guide, Watkins and Gioia review the fundamentals of mixed methods research designs and the general suppositions of mixed methods procedures; look critically at mixed method studies and models that have already been employed in social work; and reflect on the contributions of and application of this work to the field"--

Total Quality Management in Human Service Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Total Quality Management in Human Service Organizations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993-09-10
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Total Quality Management (TQM) is shaping the management of the 1990s. This book is the first to present TQM concepts with social service administrators in mind. With examples drawn from public administration, gerontology, public health and non-profit-making organizations, the book provides sound background information on TQM for practitioners.

Understand Social Agency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Understand Social Agency

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984-11
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This revised and expanded Second Edition of the widely read Understanding Your Social Agency offers students and practitioners a simple yet comprehensive introduction to organizational theory and its meaning for social agencies. Each of the first ten chapters is devoted to a particular perspective for understanding the agency. The final chapter considers using each of the ten perspectives independently, or in tandem, to solve problems within or on behalf of the agency. It will be a useful guide to solving problems of an organizational nature within an agency.

The First Helping Interview
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The First Helping Interview

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-07-16
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This book provides practical, step-by-step guidance to the crucial first meeting with a client - at which the helping professional must initiate a relationship. Specific topics are discussed, such as the role of culture and ethnicity issues.