Chapter One: Science and social work

Chapter Outline

  1. How do social workers know what to do? (11 minute read)
  2. Social work research (15 minute read)
  3. Common errors in thinking and reasoning (9 minute read)
  4. The scientific method (30 minute read)
Content warning: Examples in this chapter contain references to school discipline, child abuse, food insecurity, homelessness, poverty and anti-poverty stigma, anti-vaccination pseudoscience, autism, trauma and PTSD, mental health stigma, susto and culture-bound syndromes, gender-based discrimination at work, homelessness, psychiatric hospitalizations, substance use, and mandatory treatment.

 

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