About the Book

Social work intervention research attempts to provide knowledge about what interventions help or hinder the attainment of social work goals.

Besides providing an introduction to social work intervention research, the book covers a range of intervention research designs and its process. Further, it also presents procedures of conducting social work intervention research in a context that will enable social work researchers, educators, practitioners and students to select appropriate intervention research strategies based on their relative merits and limitations and undertake social work intervention research projects.

It provides an introduction to pre-experimental and quasi-experimental research designs and discusses the steps in designing and conducting social work intervention research studies using these research designs.

This book contains eight chapters. Each chapter includes illustrations from social work practice, which discusses various stages of social work intervention research and seven research studies which used different intervention research designs undertaken by social work educators and practitioners.

Contents

1 Intervention Research

2 Conceptual Foundations of Intervention Research

3 Social Work Intervention Research

4 Social Work Intervention Research Designs: Group Designs

5 Social Work Intervention Research Designs: Single-Subject Designs

6 Social Work Intervention Research Process: Group Designs

7 Social Work Intervention Research Process: Single-Subject Designs

8 Implications for Social Work Education and Practice

About the Author / Editor

D.K. Lal Das, is a well-known social work researcher and educator with more than four decades of experience in teaching, research, training and consultancy. As former principal and director of a pioneering college of social work in Hyderabad, his contribution to the social work education and research has been remarkable.

Directed several research projects funded by Government of India, UNICEF, Australian Aid and many more, authored several books, and presented papers at national and international seminars. He has published more than 30 research papers in referred journals including the Indian Journal of Social Work, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, Social Change, National Labour Bulletin and Contemporary Social Work.

Being a passionate teacher and mentor, he till date continues to contribute to the field of social work research by conducting research methodology workshops for teachers, research scholars and students and guiding research scholars from across the globe. His workshops and courses tend to be highly applied with emphasis on hands-on-experience and experiential learning.

He has been honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by National Association of Professional Social Workers in India in 2019.