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Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered by many
researchers and providers to be the gold standard of health and
social service effectiveness research. However, there exist scant
resources that deal with the complex nature of designing and
implementing RCTs in community-based settings. This clearly written
pocket guide provides researchers and social service practitioners
insight into each step of an RCT. The goal of this text is to
enable readers to understand, design, and implement a
community-based RCT.
From the initial stage of planning the RCT and developing its
conceptual foundations through implementation, the authors provide
a wealth of detail and case studies from social work practice
research that assist readers to comprehend the detailed information
provided. Accessible, concrete advice is woven throughout the text
and tackles the many design and implementation challenges that
arise in community practice settings. The importance of utilizing a
mix of qualitative and quantitative methods is encouraged due to
the intricate nature of RCT research in community-based
environments.
Through utilizing practical case examples, this pocket guide
reviews the essentials of RCTs in a manner that will appeal to
researchers, practitioners and students alike who are seeking the
necessary tools to build the empirical knowledge base for
community-based psychosocial interventions for social work.
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: "These essays are exemplary in
conceptualization, organization, and delivery. The messages are
crystal clear, the readability superb. This book stands as a model
of editorial excellence. The design of the volume is unique and
responds well to a clear need in the subdiscipline of family
violence, which remains fraught with diversity and dissention. . .
. This piece of work is honest and effectively illuminates the
growing pains of a very young and ideologically loaded
subdiscipline that is anchored by an interdisciplinary and
heterogeneous collection of smart people. Current Controversies on
Family Violence is a powerful addition to the family violence
literature. I recommend it as required reading for family violence
courses. Gelles and Loseke are to be commended for their excellent
idea, their tenacity, their directness and candor as expressed in
the framing materials, their sensitive insights, and their superb
editorial skills." --Ann Goetting, Western Kentucky University
"Gelles and Loseke accomplish their goal of encouraging debate
among family violence researchers....does the best job I have seen
at presenting the spectrum of approaches to the problem in a fair
objective manner....an outstanding contribution to family violence
research." --JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY The study of family
violence is surrounded by multiple controversies. Experts in this
field do not agree about what should be studied and condemned (Is
spanking violence? Is women's violence toward men a major social
problem? If it is, how should it be measured? What, specifically,
should be condemned as date rape?) Experts also disagree about the
causes of violence (Individual pathology? The structure of gender
or families?), as well as about what should be done to eliminate it
(Do child sexual abuse education programs or family preservation
programs work?). Now in its Second Edition, Current Controversies
on Family Violence contains thoughtful--often heated--discussions
that highlight the most current controversies, research, and policy
directions in the family violence area. This volume includes
chapters by academic and public policy researchers, therapists,
lawyers, victim advocates and educators. Some of the controversies
in the First Edition have been deleted while new ones have been
added. Chapters in this Second Edition also are shorter and more
accessible to readers who are not already experts in family
violence. This is an excellent and necessary resource for students
and researchers of interpersonal violence, sociology, social work,
nursing, gender studies, clinical psychology, criminal justice, and
gerontology.
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