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"This book will inspire the next generation of social work practitioners to integrate research into their everyday social justice practice. Through highlighting the centrality of values to the task of research and the possibilities for enacting social justice through our research practice, it argues for respectful, meaningful and just relationships with the people with whom we do research and build knowledge; acknowledge the ongoing impact of colonialism; respect diversity; and commit to working towards social change. With First Nations Worldviews - ways of knowing, ways of being, ways of doing - weaved throughout the text, this book seeks to both reclaim ancient knowledges and disrupt Western research traditions. Divided into three sections - a strong rationale for the importance of research skills to social work practice; - step-by-step guides on doing social research aimed at novice researchers; - a series of examples of applied social justice projects Bringing the authors' passion for finding new ways 'doing' research and contesting traditional research paradigms of objectivity and the scientific, it advocates for knowledge building that is participatory, emancipatory, and empowered. It will be required reading for all social work students at both the undergraduate and masters level as well as professionals looking to put research into practice"--

1. Social Justice Thinking 2. Working with the Community to Define the Issue 3. Determining Need 4. From Understanding the Issue to Developing the Impact 5. The Process of Program Planning, Theory of Change and Logic Models 6. Lasting Change Requires a Detailed Strategy 7. Developing the Program Logic Model 8. The Program Narrative 9. Program Evaluation

In Restorative and Responsive Human Services, Gale Burford, John Braithwaite, and Valerie Braithwaite bring together a distinguished collection providing rich lessons on how regulation in human services can proceed in empowering ways that heal and are respectful of human relationships and legal obligations. The human services are in trouble: combining restorative justice with responsive regulation might redeem them, renewing their well-intended principles. Families provide glue that connects complex systems. What are the challenges in scaling up relational practices that put families and primary groups at the core of health, education, and other social services? This collection has a distinctive focus on the relational complexity of restorative practices. How do they enable more responsive ways of grappling with complexity than hierarchical and prescriptive human services? Lessons from responsive business regulation inform a re-imagining of the human services to advance wellbeing and reduce domination. Readers are challenged to re-examine the perverse incentives and contradictions buried in policies and practices. How do they undermine the capacities of families and communities to solve problems on their own terms? This book will interest those who harbor concerns about the creep of domination into the lives of vulnerable citizens. It will help policymakers and researchers to re-focus human services to fundamental outcomes at the foundation of sustainable democracies.

The Social Science Information Service (SSIS), sponsored by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, provides current social science information on provisions of emerging legislation to members of Congress. Its mode of operation is described. It is not a lobby, even though the bills of potential interest are brought to the director's attention by the Congressional liaison. A brief history of the SSIS is presented; comments & research findings brought to Congressional committees have involved problems of aging, nutrition, national health insurance, work satisfaction, juvenile delinquency, family & child services, coercive therapy, & runaway youth. The most recent activity has been the location of information on noneconomic effects of unemployment. The latest annual report includes material on the rights of children, aging, newsletter appeals, juvenile delinquency & runaway youth. Proposed activities include presentations on crime, energy, welfare reform, health care, & aging. SSIS hopes to develop relations with Congressional staff members to provide consultants to bring social science information to bear on the drafting of legislation & the proposal of new legislation. SSIS also plans to make further contacts with social science professional organizations to promote cooperation in locating relevant research. Modified Author Summary.

It is argued that there can be no perceptible, continuous interchange between theory & practice, any more than there can be reduction of one to the other. Theory & practice are basically antithetical; one can lead to the other as a result of methodological dissociations that are just as frequently contrasting as complementary. These two autonomous poles are partly incommunicable & partly complementary; despite their conflicting relations, they are essential to each other, since theory not founded on practical experience would rapidly become ideological, & practice devoid of any theoretical basis would soon stagnate. The ways in which the human & practical sciences have contributed, over the last thirty years, to the prevailing domination supremacy of signs are delineated. Modified AA.

THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SERVICE. THE SERVICE'S HISTORY, MODE OF OPERATION, UNIQUENESS, RECENT AND PROPOSED ACTIVITIES ARE DISCUSSED. THE SERVICE SEEKS TO INFORM LEGISLATORS AND THEIR STAFFS AS TO THE LIKELY SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF VARIOUS LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS WHERE THERE IS APPLICABLE EVIDENCE FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH.

Publisher's note -- Editor's introduction -- Activities therapist -- Art therapist -- Career & technical education teacher -- Case worker / social services assistant -- Childcare worker -- Clergy -- Employment specialist -- Fitness trainer & instructor -- Healthcare social worker -- Health information technician -- Home health aide -- Marriage & family therapist -- Music therapist -- Occupational therapist -- Physical therapist -- Psychologist -- Recreational therapist -- Rehabilitation counselor -- Religious activities & Education director -- School counselor -- Social worker -- Special education teacher -- Speech-language pathologist -- Substance abuse counselor -- Vocational rehabilitation counselor -- Appendix A: Holland Code -- Appendix B: Bibliography -- Index

The system of social science information services in the USSR comprises the Instit of Scientific Information on the Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences (INION), several branch information services, regional information services integrated into the structure of the Academies of Sciences of Soviet socialist republics, a network of information-processing departments attached to scientific humanities institutions & Us & a number of bibliographical centers. Presently the main aim in the development of the system is its optimization on the basis of clear differentiation of the scientific information institutions' functions. INION coordinates, at the national level, information activities in the social sciences, collects & abstracts Soviet & foreign literature on the social sciences, & publishes abstracts, bibliographical materials, & analytical surveys of scientific literature. INION & its branches possess holdings of literature amounting to 9,760,000 units of printed output, systematically enriched by the local & foreign scientific publications. INION maintains constant contacts involving exchange with 1,557 organizations in sixty-six countries. It is well equipped technically & has proceeded to the first stage in the elaboration of its own integral automated information system, enabling it to carry out exchanges of magnetic tapes & liaison channels. Vast prospects for the European states' cooperation in the field of social sciences information exist. The conference of European centers of information & documentation (Moscow, June 1977) adopted recommendations concerning the problems to be solved in view of cooperation development, foreseeing an expansion of international exchanges of books, abstracts, bibliographies, & microfiches, cooperation in the copilation of international bibliographies, the elaboration of proposals on the international standardization of information, exchange of information on methodology, etc. The European Co-ordination Centre for Research & Documentation in Social Sciences in Vienna could play a decisive role in the realization of all these recommendations. AA.