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Test Bank For Research Methods For Social Work Being Producers and Consumers of Research Updated Edition 2 e 2nd Edition
Test Bank For Research Methods For Social Work Being Producers and Consumers of Research Updated Edition 2 e 2nd Edition
CHAPTER SUMMARY
• Scientific research is not in any way a monolithic enterprise.
• Scientific research can be driven by many different philosophies and perspectives.
• Two overall philosophies of scientific research are the indictive and deductive approaches.
• Variations in scienctific research are also evident in the methods that are used, with quantitative,
qualitative, or mixed methods being options.
• Mixed methods of both quantitative and qualitative methods are becoming fairly common in
studies.
• Specialized perspectives are also likely to be evident in research.
• Three specialized perspectives popular in social work research are the feminist, Afrocentric, and
Participant Action.
• Critical thinking involves using an important set of skills that are relevant to research as well as
practice.
Inductive Research
Deductive Research
Quantitative Methods
Qualitative methods
Mixed Methods
Feminist Research
Afrocentric Research
Summary
MyLibrary Activities
1. Go to "Interactive Cases for Practice: Domestic Violence" and watch the videos “Using Skills of
Engagement” and “Data Collection and Problem Definition.” Do you think the social worker’s
information-gathering strategy is more deductive or more inductive? Give evidence to support
your position.
2. Go to "Interactive Cases for Practice: Domestic Violence" and watch the video “Elaboration:
Using Active Listening.” How does the social worker use a qualitative approach to learn more
about her client’s situation? In small groups, brainstorm additional questions the social worker
could ask to learn more about the client’s situation and categorize them as qualitative or
quantitative.
Homework Activities
1. Go to "Interactive Cases for Practice: Domestic Violence" and watch the videos “Clarification of
Roles,” “Identifying the Next Steps,” and “Seeking Client Feedback and Reaching for Feelings.”
Write a short paragraph exploring limitations the social worker faces in generalizing about her
client on the basis of other domestic violence cases.
2. Gibbs and Gambrill (1996) identify problems that arise when social workers fail to think
critically in accordance with the principles of social work research. Go to "Interactive Cases for
Practice: Domestic Violence" and identify three things the social worker does that help her avoid
the following problems: misclassifying the client, focusing on irrelevant factors, selecting weak
or inappropriate interventions, increasing client dependency, or inappropriately
continuing/discontinuing an intervention
3. Go to MySearchLab and do a literature search on the following topics: participatory action
research and domestic violence. On the basis of your literature search, what suggestions might
you give the social worker in "Interactive Cases for Practice: Domestic Violence" to help her
involve her client as a participant in the problem-solving process?
MySocialWorkLibrary Activities
1. Go to MySocialWork Library and read the article “Domestic Violence: Betty and Charlie
Bristol.” How does the social worker, Shelly Schuurman, use critical thinking skills and
research knowledge to question the initial CMH worker’s assessment of the case?
2. How does the social worker apply feminist research in her assessment of Betty’s situation?
Explain how the use of feminist research helped Shelly Shuurman acknowledge human diversity
and increase her cultural competence in the client-therapist relationship.
ASSIGNMENTS USING MYSEARCHLAB
By using the MySearchLab component of MySocialWorkLab, students can access a variety of search
engines, resources, and articles that can help them develop their understanding as well as their research
abilities. Have students research one or more of the following key terms. Some suggested assignments
follow.
• Philosophy of research • Participant Action Research
• Perspective of research • Feminist research
• Indictive research • Afrocentric research
• Deductive research • Ethnic-based research
• Quantitative methods • Critical thinking
• Qualitative methods • Reductionism
• Mixed methods • Generalizing
1. Select one of these terms that has peaked your interest or curiousity. Find out more about this
term by reviewing research articles or Websites that use this term. Write a short essay on what
you have learned abut the term beyond what is described in chapter 2.
There are two types of multiple-choice (and essay) assessments included for each chapter:
• Practice Test
• Chapter Exam
Practice Test
After reading the chapter, students are then recommended to take the Practice Test. The Practice Test
measures student comprehension of the material learned in this chapter.
Chapter Exam
After class discussion and/or assignment chosen by the instructor, students should then complete the
Chapter Exam on MySocialWorkLab. This Chapter Exam will be graded and will automatically feed
into the MySocialWorkLab instructor gradebook upon completion.
To view the Practice and Chapter Exam test questions, visit www. mysocialworklab.com.
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BILIBID.
As we are going to press, there comes to hand a little pamphlet
describing the industries and production of Bilibid.
Why not send our wardens who desire to do things to Bilibid?
Perhaps, it would be better to send our legislators, who after
observing the practical achievements of Bilibid may be induced to
authorize our wardens to inaugurate a sound industrial policy.
Where is Bilibid? Take the train for San Francisco, engage passage
on some leviathan of the deep and get off probably at the second
station which is Manila. Thence it is a short excursion to Bilibid, a trip
taken by twenty thousand visitors in a single year, not to mention
those who take involuntary trips thither.
Forty buildings, seventeen acres of ground, plan of main building like
Eastern Penitentiary, one of the best ever constructed if we consider
continual inspection as an essential factor. 2800 prisoners there; as
many others in prisons elsewhere in the islands but all co-ordinated
under a central administration.
The great aim is to prepare the inmates for “honorable position in the
community upon their release.”
The men work and play. We enumerate some of the industries.
PENNSYLVANIA.
William E. Mikell, Member of State Commission to Revise
the Criminal Code.
The work of the commissioners who framed the Code of 1860 shows
an utter lack of any consistent theory not only of grading the crimes
as felonies and misdemeanors, but also in grading the punishment
fixed for the various crimes. It may not be easy to do this in all cases.
Persons may intelligently differ as to whether perjury should be more
seriously punished than assault and battery, and whether larceny or
bigamy be deserving of the greater penalty. But it is difficult to see
why embezzlement by a consignee or factor should be punished with
five years’ imprisonment and embezzlement by a person
transporting the goods to the factor should be punished by one
year’s imprisonment. * * *
Under the Act of 1860, having in possession tools for the
counterfeiting of copper coin is punished by six years’ imprisonment,
while by the next section the punishment for actually making
counterfeit copper coin is only three years, though it cannot be made
without the tools to make it. * * *
The distinction just mentioned is, however, no stranger than that
made by the code between a councilman on the one hand and a
judge on the other, in the provisions against bribery. Section 48 of
the Act of 1860 provides that if any judge * * * shall accept a bribe,
he shall be fined not more than $1000 and be imprisoned for not
more than five years. But by Section 8 of the Act of 1874, a
councilman who accepts a bribe may be fined $10,000, ten times as
much as a judge, and be imprisoned the same number of years—
five years. The statute also provides that the councilman shall be
incapable of holding any place of profit or trust in this
Commonwealth thereafter. But the convicted judge is placed under
no such disability.
In the case of almost every crime denounced by the code fine and
imprisonment are associated. In most cases the penalty provided is
fine and imprisonment, in some it is fine or imprisonment. In a few
cases imprisonment alone without a fine is prescribed, and in a few
others it is a fine alone without imprisonment. We seek in vain for
any principle on which the fine is omitted, where it is omitted; or for a
principle on which it is inflicted in addition to imprisonment in some
cases, and as an alternative to imprisonment in others. Thus the
penalty for exhibiting indecent pictures on a wall in a public place is a
fine of $300, but no imprisonment, while by the same act the drawing
of such pictures on the same wall carries a fine of $500 and one
year’s imprisonment. Manslaughter carries a fine of $1000 as well as
imprisonment for twelve years, but train robbery and murder in the
second degree involve no fine, but fifteen and twenty years in prison
respectively. It cannot be the length of the imprisonment that does
away with the fine in this latter case, for the crime of aiding in
kidnapping may be punished with twenty-five years in prison, but
also has a fine of $5000.
More striking still, perhaps, is the lack of any relation between the
amount of the fine and the length of the imprisonment provided in the
code. In the case of some crimes the fine is small and the
imprisonment short, as in blasphemy, which is punished by a fine of
$100 and three months in prison, extortion and embracery punished
with $500 and one year. In a few the fine is large and the
imprisonment long, as in accepting bribes by councilmen, $10,000
and five years, and malicious injury to railroads, $10,000 and ten
years. But in others the fine is small while the imprisonment is long
and in others the fine large and the imprisonment short.
Incomplete Crimes.
CLINICAL WORK.