Disengagement at work is proving to be a source of continued trouble for business
organizations. Various estimates suggest that in excess of 70% of the workforce is either …

This book is written for practitioners working in health, education and social care who are
undertaking research. Practitioner research is an emerging research tradition. The aim of …

The starting point for this paper is the view that social work practice is a highly skilled activity
and one that calls for an extensive knowledge base and considerable intellectual abilities …

Whilst much has been written on the competence and clinical effectiveness of qualified
nurse practitioners, the literature reveals little on the educational experience of student …

We provide a novel historical account of social work practice that situates the evidence-
based practice (EBP) movement as an attempt to fulfill a long-standing ambition to develop a …

Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) involves the conceptualization, extraction, analysis, and
interpretation of available clinical data for practice knowledge-building, clinical decision …

Evaluation is not a self-contained phase of social work practice-one more dimension of the
process-but a dimension of every phase. In this fully rewritten and updated second edition of …

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SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable …

It'sa little perplexing that relatively few social workers appear to be doing research into
practice. Who better to interview service users or run a focus group of carers for the …

This paper, drawing on a study of social work research in UK universities, asks–and
suggests provisional answers to–two questions. First is it possible to identify ways to …