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Social Work Research: Priorities and Obstacles

Eileen Gambrill

University of California at Berkeley

Priorities for social work research are suggested and obstacles discussed Clarifying the goals of research is suggested as a first step. Success in helping clients prevent or resolve real-life problems is suggested as a key purpose ofknowledge development in professions such as social work Priorities identified include diffusion of successful programs, developing effective education programs, intervention research (especially programmatic research), increasing the quality of scholarship, and training m critical thinking and related knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Other priorities discussed include networking among those working in a given area and increasing skills in grant preparation. Obstacles identified include funding priorities, different definitions of knowledge, lack of understanding and misrepresentation of science, competing contingencies, and seduction by theory. Others suggested include the prevalence of pathologies of science, different goals, and the search for a unique knowledge base. Educational implications are discussed

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 4, No. 3, 359-388 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/104973159400400307
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