Research Methods for Social Workers

Chapter One From social work skills to research skills: what is 'being research minded'?.- Chapter Two Understanding published research and research design: scoping and summarizing.- Chapter Three Dealing with ethics and maintaining professional values during research.- Chapter Four Talking and listening: using qualitative methods to develop relationship based approaches to research.- Chapter Five Working with documentary sources and qualitative data analysis in social work research.- Chapter Six It's all about attitude: ways of capturing and understanding measurable data.- Chapter Seven Mixing it up: how to combine research approaches without getting into a muddle.- Chapter Eight Can you innovate? Developing arts based and visual methods for social work research.- Chapter Nine What's out there? Using the internet and social media for research.- Chapter Ten Becoming a social work researcher: building confidence as well as skills.- Glossary of key terms.