Chapter 1: Science and social work
Chapter Outline
- How do social workers know what to do? (11 minute read)
- Social work research (15 minute read)
- Common errors in thinking and reasoning (9 minute read)
- 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.