Choosing a career can be daunting. But as you start down the path toward becoming a social work professional, it helps to have a map to help you plot your course. Have you decided on a school? Need help getting started writing your statement of purpose? Wondering what your new program expects from students? Deciding which internship best fits your interests? Curious about the benefits of social work professional organizations? Getting Your MSW: How to Survive and Thrive in a Social Work Program, Second Edition has all the answers and so much more! This user-friendly book guides the student through the decision-making process and necessary deliberations that all MSW students face. There are helpful guidelines and survival strategies for such things as time management and creating a support group that are important for a successful graduate school experience. This second edition has additional content and resources that make it easier to utilize as a quick handbook for potential and current students.

Getting Your MSW, Second Edition: How to Survive and Thrive in a Social Work Program

Politics & Social Sciences

Sowers, Karen M.

Thyer, Bruce A.

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

The art of writing up a completed research project in a format suitable for submission to a social work journal is an ability separate from one's skills as a research methodologist. It is also an ability that, despite its importance, is often overlooked by research courses and senior-level mentors. This straightforward pocket guide to Preparing Research Articles steps into the void as an insider's guide to getting published. Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience editing a social work research journal, Bruce A. Thyer has crafted a candid companion to the journal publishing process, unraveling the mysteries that students - as well as many established researchers - might otherwise stumble over, and as a result their prospectus for future success improve. Thyer's frank advice on selecting an appropriate journal, handling rejections and revisions, understanding confusing concepts like impact factors and electronic publishing, and avoiding common methodological and formatting pitfalls, constitute a gold mine for the fledging researcher-writer.

Preparing Research Articles (Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods)

It is usually the case that ethical and pragmatic considerations preclude the use of randomly assigning social work clients to experimental and comparative treatment conditions. In such instances, the practicality of employing a quasi-experimental method becomes an excellent alternative. Quasi-experimental research designs allow researchers to compare groups, and the use of increasingly sophisticated programs provides greater statistical control for what has become the most widely employed research approach used to evaluate the outcomes of social work programs and policies. This pocket guide describes the logic, design, and conduct of the range of such designs, encompassing pre-experiments, quasi-experiments making use of a control or comparison group, and time-series designs. An introductory chapter describes the valuable role these types of studies have played in social work, from the 1930s to the present. Subsequent chapters delve into each design type's major features, the kinds of questions it is capable of answering, and its strengths and limitations. By linking the theoretical discussion of quasi-experimental designs with actual applications in social work literature, the usefulness and vitality of these research methods comes alive for readers. While this book can be utilized as a manual, it will also have great value for practitioners seeking a greater conceptual understanding of quasi-experimental studies in social work literature. Human service professionals planning to undertake a program evaluation of their agency's services will find this book helpful in understanding the steps and actions needed to adopt a quasi-experimental strategy.

Quasi-Experimental Research Designs (Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods)

Build your research methods library instantly with this 17-volume set of Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods!

Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods, 17 vols.

Springer, David W.

Danto, Elizabeth Ann

Abell, Neil

Kamata, Akihito

Experimental Research Designs in Social Work: Theory and Applications

Columbia University Press

Cultural Diversity and Social Work Practice

Wodarski, John S.

Charles C. Thomas Pub Ltd

Praised by instructors and students alike, PROGRAM EVALUATION: AN INTRODUCTION helps your students evaluate services and programs that they will encounter in their professional practice. In the process of learning evaluation techniques and skills, students will become proficient at critically analyzing evaluation studies conducted by others. The authors present and simplify all the essentials needed for a critical appreciation of evaluation issues and methodology. The authors' clear writing style and clear presentation of concepts, as well as the text's hands-on and applied focus, will guide students on how to gather evidence and demonstrate that their interventions and programs are effective in improving clients' lives.

Program Evaluation: An Introduction, 5th Edition

ROYSE, DAVID

Padgett, Deborah K.

Brooks/Cole

The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods

This volume is the definitive resource for anyone doing research in social work. It details both quantitative and qualitative methods and data collection, as well as suggesting the methods appropriate to particular types of studies. It also covers issues such as ethics, gender and ethnicity, and offers advice on how to write up and present your research.

Sage Publications, Inc.

This volume is the definitive resource for anyone doing research in social work. It details both quantitative and qualitative methods and data collection, as well as suggesting the methods appropriate to particular types of studies. It also covers issues such as ethics, gender and ethnicity, and offers advice on how to write up and present your research.

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Getting Your MSW, Second Edition: How to Survive and Thrive in a Social Work Program

Preparing Research Articles (Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods)

Quasi-Experimental Research Designs (Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods)

Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods, 17 vols.

Experimental Research Designs in Social Work: Theory and Applications

Experimental Research Designs in Social Work: Theory and Applications

Cultural Diversity and Social Work Practice

Program Evaluation: An Introduction, 5th Edition

The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods

The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods