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Rodriguez, Maria Y.; Ostrow, Laysha; Kemp, Susan P. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative aims to focus the profession's attention on how social work can play a larger role in mitigating contemporary social problems. Yet a central issue facing contemporary social work is its seeming reticence to engage with social problems, and their solutions, beyond individual-level interventions.…
Descriptors: Social Work, Change Strategies, Social Problems, Educational Practices
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Bertram, Rosalyn M.; Blase, Karen A.; Fixsen, Dean L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
This article presents recent refinements to implementation constructs and frameworks. It updates and clarifies the frequently cited study conducted by the National Implementation Research Network that introduced these frameworks for application in diverse endeavors. As such, it may serve as a historical marker in the rapidly developing science and…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Program Implementation, Human Services, Theory Practice Relationship
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Rubin, Allen – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
This keynote address discusses previous and ongoing efforts to reduce the persistent gap between research and practice in social work and offers recommendations for further bridging that gap. Key among those recommendations is the need to conduct descriptive outcome studies of efforts to adapt research-supported interventions in everyday practice…
Descriptors: Social Work, Social Science Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Utilization
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Brekke, John S. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
There are two purposes to this article. The first is to update the science of social work framework. The second is to use recent discussions on the nature of realist science and on social work science to propose a definition of social work as an integrative scientific discipline that complements its definition as a profession.
Descriptors: Social Work, Scientific Enterprise, Interdisciplinary Approach, Definitions
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Marsh, Jeanne C. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
Larry Palinkas advances the developing science of social work by providing an explanation of how social science research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, can improve our capacity to draw casual inferences. Understanding causal relations and making causal inferences--with the promise of being able to predict and control outcomes--is…
Descriptors: Social Work, Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
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Sommerfeld, Peter – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
It is a surprising fact that social work is not conceived as a scientific discipline in many countries and especially in the United States. It is surprising because the extent of academic social work programs and the scientific output of people working at schools of social work are significant. And it is surprising anyway if social work is…
Descriptors: Social Work, Social Sciences, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education