This article reviews the innovations in teaching research in social work education, including
conceptual material and specific examples. There is attention to the ideological differences …

Objective: This study examines the quality of evaluation studies using qualitative research
methods in the social work literature in terms of a number of criteria commonly adopted in …

The social work profession suffers from a dearth of empirically based studies of practice
outcomes. One reason for this is the message conveyed in research texts, doctoral program …

This article argues that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is fundamentally and
historically based on the uncritical but societally well accepted view that medically justified …

This article reflects on theory in social work. With a starting point in the contemporary
discussion of evidence-based social work, we raise questions about the role of theory. To …

THE DEBATE BETWEEN Bruce Thyer and Tomi Gomory in the Winter 2001 issue of this
journal provided a stimulating example of scholarly argument, and I am delighted to have …

This article provides an introduction for social workers to ethnomethodology (EM), and
suggests that they can find not only a similarity of attention between their front-line work and …

In the beginning of the 1990s, Sweden experienced an economic recession. The
unemployment rate increased significantly and the proportion of young adults receiving …

Background. In recent years, the veracity of scientific findings has come under intense
scrutiny in what has been called the “replication crisis”(sometimes called the “reproducibility …

An enduring controversy over the nature of ADHD complicates parents' decisions regarding
children likely to be diagnosed with the condition. Using a fallibilist perspective, this review …