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Social Work Resources: Research Methods

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SAGE Research Methods is an online research tool created to help students and researchers across the social and behavioral sciences to design research projects, understand methods or identify new methods, conduct research, and write up their findings.

Social Work Research Methods - Qualitative

Qualitative Methods

Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research by Deborah K. Padgett
Call Number: HV11 .P24 2008
ISBN: 1412951933
Publication Date: 2008
Doing Qualitative Research in Social Work by Ian Shaw; Sally Holland
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1446252876
Publication Date: 2014
Also in print HV11 .S53 2014

Social Work Research Methods - Quantitative

Quantitative/Statistical Methods

Basic Statistics for Social Workers by Robert A. Schneider
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780761849322
Publication Date: 2010
Also in print HV29 .S35 2010
Statistics and Data Interpretation for Social Work by James A. Rosenthal
Call Number: HA29 .R796 2012
ISBN: 9780826107206
Publication Date: 2012
Statistics for Social Workers by Robert Weinbach; Richard Grinnell
Call Number: HA29 .W42 2015
ISBN: 9780205867035
Publication Date: 2015
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Social Work Research Methods - General

General Methods

These books involve both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Social work research methods: Learning by doing by Reginald O. York
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781506387208
Publication Date: 2019
Research methods for social workers: A practice based approach by Samuel S. Faulkner, Cynthia A. Faulkner
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780190858964
Publication Date: 2019
Research methods for social work: A problem-based approach. by Rodgers-Farmer, A. Y., & Farmer, G. L.
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781506345291
Publication Date: 2021
Doing Social Work Research by Roger Smith
Call Number: HV11 .S65 2009
ISBN: 9780335235643
Publication Date: 2009
Critical and Creative Social Work Research Methodologies by Lia Bryant
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781472425836
Publication Date: 2015
Essential Research Methods for Social Work by Allen Rubin; Earl R. Babbie
Call Number: HV11 .R8 2016
ISBN: 9781305101685
Publication Date: 2016
Social Work Research Methods by Brett Drake; Melissa Jonson-Reid
Call Number: HV11 .D17 2008
ISBN: 0205460976
Publication Date: 2008
Social Work Research Methods by William Lawrence Neuman; Larry Kreuger
Call Number: HV11 .N483 2003
ISBN: 0205299148
Publication Date: 2003