Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work: Making Social Work Count

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Quantitative research makes a very important contribution to both understanding and responding effectively to the problems that social work service users face. In this unique and authoritative text, a group of expert authors explore the key areas of data collection, analysis and evaluation and outline in detail how they can be applied to practice.

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Barbra Teater is Associate Professor in Social Work at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA. John Devaney is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Queens University Belfast, UK. Donald Forrester is Professor of Child and Family Social Work at Cardiff University, UK. Jonathan Scourfield is Professor of Social Work at Cardiff University, UK. John Carpenter is Professor of Social Work & Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK.