| Description |
xiii, 440 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: a time to take stock / Lynn Videka-Sherman, William J. Reid -- Rethinking single-case evaluation / Wallace J. Gingerich -- Beyond regret: singlecase evaluations and their place in social work education and practice / Helen Reinherz -- Improving the fit between single-subject designs and practice / Betty J. Blythe -- Single-system research designs in social work practice / Bruce Thayer -- Single-case research and traditional practice: issues and possibilities / Judith C. Nelson -- Single-system designs in family-centered social work practice / Susan B. Stern -- Illustrating the value of practice wisdom / Kevin J. Corcoran -- Why don't practioners use single-subject designs? / Eleanor Reardon Tolson -- Expert systems and the development of knowledge in social welfare / Edward J. Mullen, John R. Schuerman -- Issues in the development of expert systems to enhance decision making in child welfare / Theodore J. Stein -- The nature of expertise in social welfare / Frederic G. Reamer -- Expert systems, Socrates, and the philosophy of mind / Jerome C. Wakefield -- Expert systems in social welfare practice: questions and concerns / Denise E, Bronson -- Computer-based clinical practice: present status and future possibilities / Walter W. Hudson -- Computer-based clinical practice: an asset or pie in the sky? / Deborah H. Siegel -- Information technology supporting empirical practice / Elizabeth Mutschler -- Enhancing clinical social work through microcomputers / Anthony N. Maluccio -- Change-process research: a new paradigm? / William J. Reid -- Change-process research: no new paradigm, but a necessary complement to the old paradigm / Edmund Sherman -- Challenges in change-process research / Enola K. Proctor -- The utility of change- process research for the education of practioners and single-case evaluation / Sharon B. Berlin -- Microanalysis of intervention-client change loops: the heart of change-process research / Inger P. Davis -- The use of qualitative and quantitative data in the development of a clinical program / Sheldon D. Rose, Naomi Farber -- The interface of qualitative and quantitative methods in social work research / Terri Combs-Orme -- Distinguishing and combining qualitative and quantitative methods / Charles Glisson -- Problems and uses of qualitative methodologies / Anne E. Fortune -- Modes of practice in developmental research / Edwin J. Thomas -- Developmental research: model or method? / Shirley Jenkins -- Modes of research for the development of interventions / Jack Rothman -- The contribution of developmental research / Ronald W. Toseland -- The substructure of belief / Stuart A. Kirk -- What is the utilization agenda? / Jesse E. Gordon -- Making research usable / Robert F. Schilling -- Opening the door to knowledge utilization / Craig Winston LeCroy -- Research utilization: reflections on the rhetoric / André Ivanoff -- Clinical significance: problems and new developments / Srinika Jayaratne -- Attribution theory and the clinical significance: further issues / Tony Tripodi -- The use of decision theory to explicate the process of clinical decision making / Rona L. Levy -- Clinical significance as process outcome / John G. Orme -- Problems and issues in meta-analysis / Joel Fischer -- Meta-analysis: a user's perspective / Lynn Videka- Sherman -- Meta-analysis: a heuristic tool for social work training / Paula Nurius -- Meta-analysis in social work / William Nugent -- Symposium 2: on the epistemology of social work practice knowledge (with an apology to Plato's symposium) / Martin Bloom -- Bloom on Bloom: a follow-up / Martin Bloom -- Penetrating the veil of appearance in empirical clinical practice / José B. Ashford -- Thoughts on the epistemology of social work practice knowledge / Cheryl A. Richey -- Epistemological and semantic traps / Roberta Wells Imre -- The epistemology of social work / Jane F. Gilgun -- Epistemological issues in the development of social work practice knowledge / Katherine M. Woods -- Epistemology and research in advancing social work knowledge / Max Siporin -- The forest or the trees? / Carol H. Meyer -- Thoughts on epistemological issues in social work / Aaron H. Beckman -- Themes in the discussion of epistemology / Lewayne D. Gilchrist -- Themes, issues, and prospects / Lynn Videka-Sherman, William J. Reid, Ronald W. Toseland. |
| Note |
Result of a conference entitled "Empiricism in Clinical Practice: Present and Future," held in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on August 18-21, 1988. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Social case work -- Methodology -- Congresses.
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Health Services Research -- Congresses.
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Social Work -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Videka-Sherman, Lynn, 1951-
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Reid, William James, 1928-
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| ISBN |
0871011867 |
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