Experimental Research Designs in Social Work

Auteur
Bruce Thyer is Distinguished Research Professor and former dean at the College of Social Work at Florida State University. He is the founding and current editor of the journal Research on Social Work Practice and coeditor of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal and the Journal of Evidence-based Social Work. He is a founding board member of the Society for Social Work and Research. He is the author of more than 290 journal articles, 130 book chapters, and more than thirty-five books in social work, psychology, behavior analysis, and psychiatry. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and of the National Academies of Practice. His most recent co-authored books are titled Program Evaluation: An Introduction to an Evidence-based Approach (Cengage, 2016, now in its sixth edition), and Science and Pseudoscience in Social Work Practice (Springer, 2015).

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This book presents a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of experimental research in the field of social work. Bruce A. Thyer illustrates key principles through examples of how social workers have evaluated real-world practice approaches.

Contenu
Note to the Reader
Foreword by Gail S. Steketee
Preface

1. Why Does Social Work Need Experimental Designs?
2. What Are Experiments?
3. The Philosophy of the Science of Experimental Designs
4. The Purpose of Experimental Designs
5. Posttest-Only Experimental Designs
6. PretestPosttest Experimental Designs
7. Refinements in Experimental Designs
8. Recruiting Participants from Diverse and Underrepresented Groups
9. Alternatives to Group-Randomized Designs for Making Causal Inferences
10. Ethical Considerations for the Use of Experimental Designs
    References
    Index