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This article provides an overview of the medication issues and concerns that social workers may encounter when participating in the treatment of clients who suffer from major depression. This overview includes information about the condition of major depression, the medications used to treat this disorder, their short- and long-term efficacy, side effects, and other important considerations for effective social work.

The authors offer a broad conceptual model of ethnic identity which enables social workers to practise effectively with clients of all ethnic and racial groups. They address all areas of practice (individuals, families, groups, and communities) and include chapters on social services, health care, & social planning and policy development

This invited article takes the opportunity occasioned by the approach of the millennium to look both backward and forward at the ills and the achievements of social work as a profession, at the changing political context in which we work, and at the successes and failures brought about by attempts to put the question of the worth of what we do beyond ideology through empirical research—in particular, through controlled experiments.

This article identifies the Africentric approach as a viable link to understanding multicultural social work practice. This Africentric social work model views the client with an African ancestry with minority status in the community as in need of unique cultural understanding in the helping process. Although most of the research and articles in this article are from the United States, social workers worldwide can find it useful in helping racial or ethnic minority clients everywhere. Examples are given with the treatment and prevention of violent and criminal problems using this Africentric approach.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Why do we need research based social work practice? -- What is to be done to develop a research base for practice? -- The organization of the text -- Part 1 Context of Social Work Research -- 1 What is research for? -- Introduction -- Social work and social sciences -- What is research? -- Social work research -- Evidence based policy and practice -- Emancipatory and participatory research -- Conclusion -- Recommended reading -- 2 Understanding social research -- Introduction -- Social research -- Social research and social work -- Conclusion -- Recommended reading -- Part 2 Process of Social Work Research -- 3 Ethics and ethical approval -- Introduction -- Research governance -- Principles of codes of ethics -- Implications for developing social work research -- Conclusion -- Recommended reading -- 4 Reviewing the literature -- Introduction -- Traditional literature reviews -- Systematic review -- Critical appraisal -- Conclusion -- Recommended reading -- 5 Methodologies and methods -- Introduction -- Methodologies, methods and design -- Ways of knowing -- The 'paradigm debate' -- Methodological approaches -- Bridging the gap -- Conclusion -- Recommended reading -- 6 Statistics and quantification: how numbers can help -- Introduction -- 'Easing' the distinction between quantitative and qualitative methods -- What do we need to get by? -- Looking for differences in the data -- Looking for similarities -- Conclusion -- Recommended reading -- 7 Samples and surveys -- Introduction -- Asking questions -- Selecting a sample -- Critically appraising a questionnaire -- The growing use of scales and inventories -- The Willingness to Care study: a brief outline of the design of a work in progress -- Conclusion -- Recommended reading -- 8 Talk and discourse.

Recently, social work has been influenced by new forms of practice that hold promise for bringing practice and research together to strengthen the scientific knowledge base supporting social work intervention. The most recent new practice framework is evidence-based practice. However, although evidence-based practice has many qualities that might attract social workers to adopt it, use in practice is limited. Accordingly, attention is being given to determine effective strategies for the dissemination, adoption, and implementation of evidence-based practice. This article examines the implementation literature, describes alternative strategies for implementation of evidence-based practice in social work, describes an implementation study to illustrate concepts discussed, and specifies needed research.

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Narrative Theory: An Introduction and Overview -- The Conceptual History of Narrative -- References -- Chapter 2: Encountering the Self, Encountering the Other: Narratives of Race and Ethnicity -- Case Example -- References -- Chapter 3: Surviving Together: Individual and Communal Narratives in the Wake of Tragedy -- Trauma Narrative and Meaning Making -- The Varieties of Trauma and Its Manifestations -- Narrative Approaches to the Treatment of Trauma -- Case Example -- References -- Chapter 4: Spiritual Stories: Exploring Ultimate Meaning in Social Work Practice -- The Formation of Spiritual Narratives: Individual, Communal, and Social -- The Spirituality and Spiritual Narrative of the Social Worker and Its Role in Treatment -- Case Example -- References -- Chapter 5: Sexual Stories: Narratives of Sexual Identity, Gender, and Sexual Development -- Narratives of Genital Sexuality -- Intimacy and Power -- To Be Sexually Active or Abstinent -- Narratives of Sexual Functioning -- Case Example -- References -- Chapter 6: Leaving Home, Finding Home: Narrative Practice with Immigrant Populations -- The Narrative of the Journey: Stories of Flight and Promise -- Loss and the Potential for Growth in the Immigration Narrative -- Renegotiating Identity: The Narrative of the Immigrant Self -- Narratives of Immigration Trauma -- Politics, Culture, and the Immigration Narrative -- Case Example -- References -- Chapter 7: Moving on: Narrative Perspectives on Grief and Loss -- Meaning Reconstruction in Narratives of Grief and Loss -- Differentiating Normal Grief and Complicated Grief -- The Varieties of Loss -- Losses Not Involving Physical Death -- Grief Work in Clinical Practice: A Narrative Perspective -- Case Example -- References