In Research Strategies for Community Practice, youll discover how you can more effectively work together with other practitioners and researchers in the interests of knowledge development and practice assessment. Youll also gain access to the conceptual rationale, research design process, and research utilization process necessary for success in the context of community organizing.Research Strategies for Community Practice raises crucial issues for you and other community practitioners. In chapters on historical research strategies, youll discover the need for reform in research procedures, which will aid you in setting goals, establishing political agendas, and exploring new policy directions. In the chapters covering community network analysis, youll find human service and support systems. Specifically, your understanding of this vital area of community practice will develop and flourish in these and many other important areas:
uses of historical research assessment, planning, and evaluation through network analysis single system research design the research process in community-based empowerment systems collaborative research participants in the context of adolescent healthReaders from all backgrounds, including doctoral students in social work, sociology, and public administration who have an interest in community practice, will want to take a look inside the proven techniques and sound research in Research Strategies for Community Practice. Youll find a practical community of professional researchers and practitioners who have compiled the most successful strategies for conducting and bettering research in your community practice.
Introduction 1(4) Ray H. MacNair, PhD Community Practice and Historical Research 5(16) Howard Jacob Karger, PhD Robert Fisher, PhD Network Analysis as a Research Methodology for Community Practice 21(26) Susan A. Murty, MSW, PhD Promoting Research on Community Practice: Using Single System Designs 47(16) Bruce A. Thyer, PhD Using Empowerment Evaluation Methods to Enhance Community Initiatives for Adolescent Health 63(20) Adrienne Paine-Andrews, PhD Stephen B. Fawcett, PhD Kimber P. Richter, MPH Kari Jo Harris, MPH Rhonda K. Lewis, PhD, MPH Jannette Berkley-Patton, MA Jacqueline L. Fisher, MPH, CHES Christine M. Lopez Vincent T. Francisco, PhD Ella L. Williams, MEd Development and Implementation of Principles for Community-Based Research in Public Health 83(28) Amy J. Schulz, PhD Barbara A. Israel, DrPH Suzanne M. Selig, MPH, PhD Irene S. Bayer, MPH BOOK REVIEW ESSAY The Ascendence of the City, Community Practice, and Community-Based Research 111(8) New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives: Concepts, Methods, and Contexts, James Connell Anne Kubisch Lisbeth Schorr Carol Weiss Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability David Fetterman Shakeh Kaftarian Abraham Wandersman Action Research: A Handbook for Practitioners Ernest Stringer Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Mulroy, PhD Index 119
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