Doctoral Social Work Research: Research Methods

This book helps graduate social work students through every step of the research process, from conceptualization to dissemination. It centers cultural humility, information literacy, pragmatism, and an equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative methods.

Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services integrates a range of research techniques into a single epistemological framework and presents a balanced approach to the teaching of research methods in the "helping professions."

This short guidebook provides information about selecting a research topic and research questions, searching for literature, reading and understanding scholarly writing, and writing a literature review to synthesize what is known and what remains to be learned about a social problem.

The Encyclopedia of Research Design explains how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate experiment design strategies and results.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods presents current and complete information as well as ready-to-use techniques, facts, and examples from the field of qualitative research in a very accessible style.

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection is an overview of the methodological developments available to social science researchers.

Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods presents state-of-the-art information and methodological examples from the field of survey research.

This volume provides a methodological structure and operational guidelines for preparing and deploying people from various walks of life as co-researchers, and it provides a proven strategy for generating practice- and policy-relevant knowledge as problem-solving in real world contexts proceeds.