Books in the Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods series

This book takes the reader through all the phases of designing and implementing group work research - that is, formulating a research question, developing hypotheses, selecting instruments, and disseminating.

This pocket guide provides a comprehensive start-to-finish overview of the basics of scale development, giving practical guidance that practitioners at all levels will be able to put to use.

Adopting ethnography as a meta-framework for social work research, this pocket guide provides a detailed, step-by-step approach for integrating cultural components and cultural awareness into the research process.

This pocket guide introduces readers to linear regression analysis, analysis of variance and covariance, and path analysis with an emphasis on the basic statistics. It prepares doctoral students and early career social work researchers with limited statistics exposure in the use of multivariate methods by providing an easy-to-understand presentation.

This practical "how to" guide integrates a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of literature, alongside a wealth of the authors' combined research experience, into a framework for behavioral health and other investigators to successfully plan, budget, assess, engage in, analyze, and report participant recruitment and retention in intervention and evaluation research studies.