Essential Research Methods for Social Work

by Allen Rubin, Earl R. Babbie

Master research methods with ESSENTIAL RESEARCH METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK! Student-friendly and clear, this social work text provides you with the tools you need to understand essential research methods content. Illustrations and examples throughout show you how you can apply research to practice. Studying is made easy with a book-specific website that provides you with tutorial quizzes and links to additional related concepts. Outlines, introductions, boxes, chapter endings with main points, review questions and exercises, and internet exercises provide you with the information and practice you need to succeed in this course.

Genres: Social Work, Nonfiction, Academic, Reference

429 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

Reviews

[Lori Lozinski]

The author uses way too many words... could distill the information down to just the facts and it would be a good book for a masters program.

[Liz Grauel]

The messages got lost in the mess of this book.

[Kat]

Kudos for all the cheeky research humor in this textbook.

[Isla]

dnf 50% lol

easy to follow tho!

[Aura]

I am just not a research methods girlie especially when this is the material guiding it!

[Lindsay Allyson]

It served it's purpose. The set up of the book was weird, according to my instructor (research design should have been at the beginning of the book?) It was not a great book, but it got the job done and I did not feel the need to completely give up on it.

[Hope McCormick]

Dry, but necessary material for my master's program in social work. I learned, which was the point I guess.

[Lisa]

"Really liked it" may not be technically accurate, but for a textbook covering a fairly dry topic, it did what it needed to do well and with as much readability as possible.

[Zachary Ransom]

Tulane University, MSW, Research for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice
SOWK 7430 Data Analysis and Interpretation
SOWK 7420 Program Evaluation

[Kbut]

common

[Megan Curtis]

Some of the chapters seemed unnecessarily wordy, beyond the complexities of the concepts themselves. It was okay.