Practice Research Partnerships in Social Work - Making a Difference

Informationen zum Autor Dr Christa Fouche is Associate Professor of Social Work at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a registered social worker with vast experience internationally as practitioner, educator, researcher, manager and organisational consultant. Christa has developed numerous effective partnerships through active involvement in communities of practice. She has written papers and a co-authored book on practice research and acted as mentor on interdisciplinary and culturally diverse practice research teams. Klappentext This comprehensive, accessibly written resource, is designed to help students and practitioners explore partnerships in creating, contributing, consuming, commissioning or critiquing evidence in and for social work practice. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive! accessibly written resource! is designed to help students and practitioners explore partnerships in creating! contributing! consuming! commissioning or critiquing evidence in and for social work practice. Section 1: The relationship between research and practice; The nature of practice-based research in Social Work; The context of practice research; Practice-research relationships; Section 2: Designing practice research; Framing the project; Designing applied research; Data collection and analysis in practice research; Section 3: Nurturing networks; Dissemination and utilisation; Research mentoring relationships; The full cycle.

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• Authors: Christa Fouch¿(c), Christa Fouch¿©, Christa Fouche, Christa Fouché, Christa FouchT
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2015
• EAN: 9781447314004
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-1400-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Policy Press - Social Work in; Social Work in Practice Series; Social Work in Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries