"Based on Russell Schutt's Investigating the Social World, the most successful and innovative social research text to have been published in the last decade. The Practice of Research in Social Work introduces research methods as an integrated set of techniques for investigating the problems encountered in social work research and practice." "The Practice of Research in Social Work is an essential text for research methods courses in schools of social work, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and for research methods courses in graduate counseling programs or in nursing programs."--Jacket.