The SAGE Handbook of Social Work Research

Editorial Essay: Mapping Social Work Research: Pasts, Presents and Futures / Ian Shaw, Katharine Briar-Lawson, Joan Orme and Roy Ruckdeschel

Sect. I. Purposes of Social Work Research

1. Nature and Purposes of Social Work / Nigel Parton and Stuart Kirk

2. Providing Objective, Impartial Evidence for Decision Making and Public Accountability / Annette Boaz and James Blewett

3. Theory and Knowledge about Social Problems to Enhance Policy Development / Joan Orme and Katharine Briar-Lawson

4. Improving Intervention and Practice / Daniel Gredig and Jeanne C. Marsh

5. Researching Our Own Domains: Research as Practice in 'Learning Organizations' / Susan White and Gerhard Riemann

6. Challenging the Dominant Paradigm: Social Work Research, Social Justice and Social Change / Bob Pease

Sect. II. Contexts for Social Work Research

7. Research and Government / Ian Shaw and Joan Zlotnik

8. Politics and Values in Social Work Research / Haluk Soydan

9. Social Work Research and Ethics / Richard Hugman

10. From Social Work Practice to Social Work Research: An Emergent Approach to a Basic Problem / Steve Trevillion

11. Theory and Theorizing: Intellectual Contexts of Social Work Research / Mikko Mantysaari and Richard Weatherley

12. Uses of Social Work Research / Roy Ruckdeschel and Adrienne Chambon

13. Places in Time: Contextualizing Social Work Research / Ian Shaw

Sect. III. Practice of Social Work Research

14. Practice of Social Work Research / Jackie Powell and Blanca Ramos

15. Logics, Qualities and Quality of Social Work Research / Ian Shaw

16. Evidence and Practice: The Knowledge Challenge for Social Work / Geraldine MacDonald and Jennie Popay

17. Methods for Enhancing Theory and Knowledge about Problems, Policies, and Practice / Jane F. Gilgun

18. Methods for Understanding, Learning and Social Justice / Carmen Lavoie, Judy MacDonald and Elizabeth Whitmore

19. Mixing Methods in Social Work Research / Jennifer C. Greene, Peter Sommerfeld and Wendy L. Haight

20. Challenges and Directions in the Practice of Social Work Research / Katharine Briar-Lawson, Robyn Munford and Jackie Sanders

Sect. IV. Domains of Social Work Research

21. Nation / Linda Briskman

22. Community / Karen M. Staller and Tracie Mafile'o

23. Children, Young People and Families / Mary C. Ruffolo, June Thoburn and Paula Allen-Meares

24. Health and Well-being / Paul Bywaters and Michael Ungar

25. Disability / Sally French and John Swain

26. Mental Health / Peter Huxley, Michael Sheppard and Martin Webber

27. Social Work Research and Aging / Philip McCallion

28. Social Work in Criminal Justice / Fergus McNeill, Denis Bracken and Alan Clarke

29. Challenges and Directions in Social Work Research and Social Work Practice / Joan Orme, Roy Ruckdeschel and Katharine Briar-Lawson.