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Direct linkMaynard, Brandy R.; Boutwell, Brian B.; Vaughn, Michael G.; Naeger, Sandra; Dell, Nathaniel – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Background: Despite an emphasis on a biopsychosocial understanding of human behavior and the relevance of biosocial research to social work practice, it is unclear whether social work is contributing to biosocial research and knowledge. Methods: Systematic review procedures were employed to locate studies that included biological variables (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Social Work, Periodicals, Social Science Research, Biology
Wharton, Tracy – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Dissemination of research is the most challenging aspect of building the evidence base. Despite peer review, evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of papers leave out details that are necessary to judge bias, consider replication, or initiate meta-analyses and systematic reviews. Reporting guidelines were created to ensure minimally…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Guidelines, Social Work, Research Reports
Wang, Mei; Sun, Guangwen; Chang, Yaping; Jin, Yanling; Leenus, Alvin; Maaz, Muhammad; Li, Guowei; Bhatt, Meha; Abbade, Luciana P. F.; Nwosu, Ikunna; Zielinski, Laura; Sanger, Nitika; Bantoto, Bianca; Luo, Candice; Shams, Ieta; Shahid, Hamnah; Adachi, Jonathan; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence; Levine, Mitchell; Samaan, Zainab; Thabane, Lehana – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Behavioral and social sciences randomized controlled trials (BSSTs) have a significant role in life sciences. Choosing an appropriate control or comparator group for BSSTs is critical, to provide true intervention effects. The objective of this study was to determine the types of control groups used in BSSTs, and the rationale provided to justify…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Databases, Behavioral Science Research, Social Science Research
Download full textStuart, Elizabeth A.; Ackerman, Benjamin; Westreich, Daniel – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Randomized trials play an important role in estimating the effect of a policy or social work program in a given population. While most trial designs benefit from strong internal validity, they often lack external validity, or generalizability, to the target population of interest. In other words, one can obtain an unbiased estimate of the study…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Design, Validity, Generalizability Theory
Corley, Nicole A.; Kim, Irang – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objectives: Intervention fidelity is a critical strategy to help advance the usefulness and integrity of social work research. This study assessed the extent to which a selected sample of published social work intervention researchers reported its intervention protocols. Methods: Six core social work journals were reviewed in this analysis. The…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Intervention, Social Work, Social Science Research
Traube, Dorian E.; Begun, Stephanie; Petering, Robin; Flynn, Marilyn L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
The field of social work does not currently have a widely adopted method for expediting innovations into micro- or macropractice. Although it is common in fields such as engineering and business to have formal processes for accelerating scientific advances into consumer markets, few comparable mechanisms exist in the social sciences or social…
Descriptors: Social Work, Innovation, Technology Transfer, Theory Practice Relationship
Megahead, Hamido A. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
This article aims at introducing the research on social work practice in Egypt and the Arab World as a thematic topic. It has started with the essence of the current Arab World and its definition. Social work practice and models of social work intervention in this specific region have been described in terms of its specific and topographic nature.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Arabs, Caseworkers
Hertel, Amy Locklear – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Grounded in an indigenous holistic worldview and borrowing from the four Rs (values of relationships, responsibility, reciprocity, and redistribution), this article supports the inclusion of translational science and the integration of core metacompetencies into social work doctoral education as innovations in the field of social work science. The…
Descriptors: Social Work, Indigenous Knowledge, Doctoral Programs, Educational Innovation
Guo, Shenyang – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Based on a review of economists' debates on mathematical economics, this article discusses a key issue for shaping the science of social work--research methodology. The article describes three important tasks quantitative researchers need to fulfill in order to enhance the scientific rigor of social work research. First, to test theories using…
Descriptors: Social Work, Researchers, Social Science Research, Research Methodology
Flynn, Marilyn L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Social work as a human services profession has been distinctive for its inclusion of research as a required element of practice and instrument in instigating reform. At the present time, the relationship of social work to science and a redefinition of social work as a science have reentered our national dialogue with new force. This expansion of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Innovation, Social Change, Social Science Research
Epstein, William M. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
The corruption of the social work enterprise is not simply episodic but systemic and long-standing including education, research, governance, and practice. Reform is unlikely since the constituency within the field and outside of it that wishes to change the situation is small and ineffective. The corruption of social work reflects the unfortunate…
Descriptors: Social Work, Reader Response, Educational Change, Barriers
Palinkas, Lawrence A.; He, Amy S.; Choy-Brown, Mimi; Hertel, Amy Locklear – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Recent efforts to identify and promote a distinct science for the discipline of social work have led to an ongoing debate regarding the nature and function of such a science. Central to this debate is a lack of consensus as to how to operationalize a social work science. Drawing from the field of implementation science and its application in…
Descriptors: Social Work, Theory Practice Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Program Implementation
Stone, Susan – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
This response considers together simultaneously occurring discussions about causal inference in social work and allied health and social science disciplines. It places emphasis on scholarship that integrates the potential outcomes model with directed acyclic graphing techniques to extract core steps in causal inference. Although this scholarship…
Descriptors: Inferences, Statistical Analysis, Cognitive Mapping, Research Methodology
Yaffe, Joanne – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
McBeath and Austin define the concept of research-minded practitioners, describe the organizational contexts, structures, and strategies for supporting this type of practitioner. Further, the authors propose a research agenda to establish effective organizational development strategies to support research-minded practitioners, align their efforts…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Organizational Development, Profiles, Evidence
Stringfellow, Erin J. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objective: Innovation will be key to the success of the Grand Challenges Initiative in social work. A structural systems framework based in system dynamics could be useful for considering how to advance innovation. Method: Diagrams using system dynamics conventions were developed to link common themes across concept papers written by social work…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Social Work, Innovation, Concept Mapping
