Social Work Science

✍ Scribed by Ian Shaw

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 339
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Ian Shaw threads together advances in modern technology, practice skills and evidence-based practice, the history of scientific claims in social work practice, and the methods of social work research to demonstrate the significant role science can play in the management of human emotions and behavior. Shaw links scientific and social work knowledge through the core themes of quality evidence, critical learning and understanding, and the skilled evaluation of the subject.

Ian Shaw demonstrates the significant role science can play in the management of human emotions and behavior. Shaw links scientific and social work knowledge through the core themes of quality evidence, critical learning and understanding, and the skilled evaluation of the subject.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
1. Talking Social Work Science
2. Doing Social Work Science
3. Historical Moments for Social Work and Science
4. Technology and Social Work
5. The Social Work Science Community: Controversies and Cooperation
6. Social Work Science and Evidence
7. Social Work Science and Understanding
8. Social Work Science and Justice
9. Impacts and Influences
Appendix: Writing Social Work Science
Notes
References
Index

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