Data from National Association of Social Workers national membership list suggest that gap between practitioners and clinical researchers may stem from different mindsets and from actual differences in commitment to importance of clinical evaluation. In minds of practitioners, there appeared to be sharp distinction between formal single-subject…

Introduces this special issue highlighting social work research using a risk, protection, and resilience perspective. This perspective can be used to conceptualize problems in social work practice; develop plans of action for individuals, families, or communities, design services at the program level; and build measurement models for assessing…

Discusses 100-year-old debate about the primary function of the social work profession: to seek social reform or to provide individual treatment. Uses debate format to argue that these need not be mutually exclusive and divisive, and that they are increasingly evident in social work education and practice. (Author/JDM)