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This study focuses on task-centered intervention strategies in order to attain a variety of goals that regularly arise in short-term clinical work with both individuals and families. These strategies involve problem-solving actions or tasks carried out by clients in the treatment session, at home or in the community. A task consists of acting in a planned way to solve a problem, rather than talking about the problem as a means to develop insight or promote personal growth. The author emphasizes a collaborative effort in which practitioners help clients to design, plan, practice and implement tasks and learn to resolve difficulties through their own problem-solving actions.

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• Part 1 Social Work and Research
• 1 Understanding the World
• 2 The Contribution of the Scientific Approach to Social Work
• Part 2 Generation of Inquiry Theory
• 1 Developing a Problem for Research
• 2 Considerations for a Useful Research Problem
• 3 Current Knowledge
• 4 Formulating Hypotheses and Questions
• 5 Explication of the Problem
• Part 3 The Social Context of Research
• 1 The Profession of Social Work
• 2 Theory as Framework for Research
• 3 The Site of the Research
• 4 The Social and Political Context
• 5 Protection of Human Subjects
• Part 4 Dimensions of Research Design
• 1 The Investigator's Control Over the Phenomena Studied
• 2 Knowledge-Building Purposes and Functions
• 3 Methodological Orientation
• 4 Establishing Causality
• 5 Threats to Internal Validity
• Part 5 Naturalistic Designs
• 1 Designs with Exploratory-Descriptive Functions
• 2 Designs with Explanatory Functions
• Part 6 Single-System Experiments
• 1 The Case Study
• 2 The Basic Time Series Design
• 3 Withdrawal Reversal Designs
• 4 The Multiple Baseline Design
• 5 Generalization (External Validity)
• Part 7 Group Experiments
• 1 ncontrolled Single Group Experiment
• 2 Strengthening the Design
• 3 Equivalent Group Designs
• 4 Nonequivalent Group Designs
• 5 The Experimental Intervention
• 6 Generalization from Group Experiments
• 7 Laboratory Experiments: Analog Studies of Intervention Effects
• Part 8 Sampling
• 1 The Nature and Purposes of Sampling
• 2 Samples and the Research Question
• 3 Basic Types of Samples
• 4 Generalization from Probability Samples
• 5 Size of Sample PART
• Part 9 Measurement
• 1 Definition of Measurement
• 2 Role of Measurement
• 3 Levels of Measurement
• 4 Criteria for Evaluating Measurement Procedures
• Part 10 Data Collection
• 1 Selecting a Data Collection Method
• 2 Bias in Data Collection Methods
• 3 Self-Report Methods
• 4 Observation
• 5 Available Data
• Part 11 Quantitative Data Analysis
• 1 Quantitative Data
• 2 Categorization and Coding
• 3 Univariate Analysis
• 4 Ivariate Analysis
• 5 Inferential Statistics
• 6 Multivariate Analysis
• 7 Analysis of Time Series Data
• 8 Meta-Analysis
• Part 12 Qualitative Research
• 1 Modes of Qualitative Research
• 2 The Methods of Qualitative Research
• Part 13 Assessment
• 1 Research Procedures in Assessment for Generalist Practice
• Part 14 Evaluating Outcome at Different Levels of Practice
• 1 Program Levels and Evaluation Designs
• 2 Outcome Criteria
• 3 From Criteria to Data
• 4 Sources and Types of Data
• 5 Variations in Outcome Measures
• Part 15 Study of Intervention Characteristics
• 1 Data from Practitioners' Reports
• 2 Data from Clients
• 3 Direct and Electronic Observation
• 4 Change Process Research
• 5 Intervention Analogs
• Part 16 Intervention Design and Development
• 1 The Design and Development Paradigm (D& D)
• Appendix 1 The Library Research Process: Mary Jane Brustman
• Appendix 2 Guidelines for Preparing a Research Report

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Reid is a recognized authority on social work practice. For the past 20 years he, his associates, and his students have been developing and refining a system for understanding and operationalizing social work methodology. As with others who have innovated and elaborated a specific practice paradigm, Reid also suffers from the frequent tendency to act as if history began with the existence of his theories and that little that went before was of much consequence or modern value. As cognitive behaviorists Reid and his colleagues also are prone to establish "analytical" and "insight" models only to be annihilated with superior reasoning and an "empirical" base. Reid, however, has expanded the conceptual and empirical boundaries of social work practice. This is a sound and useful work. It should prove to be an excellent text for undergraduate or inexperienced graduate students, but it should be used with works that present other perspectives on practice and even other views of humans and the human condition. Superior index and a superlative bibliography. Advanced undergraduate; graduate. F. J. Peirce; emeritus, University of Oklahoma