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Science and Social Work
A Critical Appraisal
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2002
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A critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining the nature of the problems it was designed to solve and the philosophical, political, and practical questions it raised.
Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining the nature of the problems it was designed to solve and the philosophical, political, and practical questions it raised. Kirk and Reid offer a balanced appraisal of the promises, accomplishments, and limits of such approaches, demonstrating how the fruits of scientific research can aid clinical practice with individuals, families and groups.
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Stuart A. Kirk is Marjorie Crump Professor and chair of the Ph.D. program of the Department of Social Welfare, School of Public Policy and Social Research at UCLA.
William J. Reid is Distinguished Professor of Social Welfare at the State University of New York at Albany.
William J. Reid is Distinguished Professor of Social Welfare at the State University of New York at Albany.
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Kirk and Reid offer a clear eyed, empathic, yet sobering history, analysis and evaluation... of social work's failure to vigorously engage in the process of developing theories of practice and effective interventions.
Matthew O. Howard, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University:
[Kirk and Reid's] thoughtful new treatise is a significant contribution to the history of ideas in social work...well written, engaging...Science and Social Work should be required reading for graduate social work students and those of us who, by dint of age, do not have the long view of social work acquired by these two prominent scholars.
This is a landmark book in the history of the relationship of social work research, as a science, and social work practice.
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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1. Knowledge, Science, and the Profession of Social Work
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2. Science and Social Work: A Historical Perspective
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3. Client Problems as Organizing Foci for Knowledge
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4. The Scientific Model in Practice: The 1960s and Beyond
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5. Engineering Social Work Intervention
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6. Computer-Assisted Social Work Practice: The Promise of Technology
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7. Research-Based Practice
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8. Research Dissemination and Utilization: Spreading the Word
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9. Knowledge for Practice: Issues and Challenges
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References
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Name index
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Subject index
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