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Ian Shaw (2011) Evaluating in Practice
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 450-453
ISSN: 1741-3117
Qualitative Methods for Studying Poverty
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 112-113
ISSN: 1741-3117
A Method for Investigating Practitioner Use of Theory in Practice
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 161-177
ISSN: 1741-3117
This article describes a methodology for studying the relationship between scientific theory (technical-rational or textbook) and theory generated in practice (knowledge-inaction or practical). It identifies the written and oral practice narrative as empirical sites for studying the use of technicalrational theory in practice. The strengths and limitations of studying the written narrative alone are discussed and a method for juxtaposing the oral and written narrative of the same practice event is described. By respecting both forms of knowledge as productive powers, identifying their empirical referents, and investigating in vivo practice events, it is argued that practice research will remain open to discovering its dual or holistic potential.
Living Outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia. By Larry Davidson. New York: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $55.00 (cloth); $19.00 (paper)
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 78, Heft 2, S. 327-330
ISSN: 1537-5404
The Subjective Experience of Youth Psychotropic Treatment
In: Social work in mental health: the journal of behavioral and psychiatric social work, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 51-69
ISSN: 1533-2993
Reading the Case Record: The Oral and Written Narratives of Social Workers
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 169-192
ISSN: 1537-5404
Book ReviewsReading Foucault for Social Work. Edited by Adrienne Chambon, Allan Irving, and Laura Epstein. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. 292. $49.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper)
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 142-145
ISSN: 1537-5404
Book ReviewsTales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Profession‐alization of Social Work. By Karen W. Tice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. 260. $49.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper)
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 73, Heft 4, S. 594-597
ISSN: 1537-5404
Book ReviewsGood Intentions Overruled: A Critique of Empowerment in the Routine Organization of Mental Health Services. By Elizabeth Townsend. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. 217. $50.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper)
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 73, Heft 2, S. 270-273
ISSN: 1537-5404
Book ReviewsUnder the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work.By Leslie Margolin. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Pp. xiv+ 216. $29.95
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 104, Heft 4, S. 1216-1218
ISSN: 1537-5390
Values in a Science of Social Work: Values-Informed Research and Research-Informed Values
In: Research on social work practice, Band 24, Heft 5, S. 527-534
ISSN: 1552-7581
While social work must be evaluative in relation to its diverse areas of practice and research (i.e., values-informed research), the purpose of this article is to propose that values are within the scope of research and therefore research on practice should make values a legitimate object of investigation (i.e., research-informed values). In this article, the fact/value debate in social work research is considered by offering reflection on the history and philosophy of this debate and by offering summary thoughts on how social work must engage with normativity (i.e., the ought, what matters most to people, and how the world and people matter) so the debate moves beyond mere questions about the relevance of values to the questions we ask, the methodologies we engage, the theories we promote, the interventions we support, our engagements with our many and diverse publics, and the investigation of values as causes.
The Coming Crisis in Social Work: Some Thoughts on Social Work and Science
In: Research on social work practice, Band 22, Heft 5, S. 499-519
ISSN: 1552-7581
In this essay, the authors consider the challenge made by two keynote speakers at recent social work research conferences, one in the United States and the other in Europe. Both spoke of a knowledge crisis in social work. Both John Brekke (Society for Social Work and Research) and Peter Sommerfeld (First Annual European Conference for Social Work Research) proposed some version of realism as a solution to the crisis. The authors will deepen the argument for realism, however, by discussing how a critical realist perspective allows us to rethink positivist and conventionalist assumptions about the fact/value relation. Using a critical realist philosophy of social science, the authors discuss how social work has taken up positivism and myriad forms of conventionalism and also identify how practical knowledge gradually loses its place and thus contribute to social work's ongoing knowledge crisis. The authors then offer a way of thinking about practice. The authors will consider forms of practice knowledge and propose that social work has four kinds that unfold in essentially open systems: discursive, visual, embodied, and liquid systems, and that each of these have both tacit and explicit dimensions. These forms of practice, moreover, are inevitably situated in theory-to-practice gaps (the authors call them phenomenological practice gaps), which are the source of social work's knowledge crisis. The authors conclude with a discussion of the role of reflexivity in a science of social work.
Old age and inheritance in two social formations: The Alexanderwohl Mennonites in Russia and the United States
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 93-112
ISSN: 1879-193X
Book Review: The Phenomenological Practice Gap: Practice Guidelines, Evaluation, and Clinical Judgment
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 483-486
ISSN: 1741-3117