Social Work and Research

Social work being a scientific profession higher professional standard calls for improving the knowledge base for costal work education and practice and delivering more effective services to the clients. As such social work practice has to be a scientific practice or data guided practice. To meet the challenging task of higher professional standards and accountability social work profession has to depend more and more on empirical evidences showing relationship between interventions and its effects. In a sense the profession as to prepare itself to accept the clients right to equity. In this context research has multifaceted roles to play. This book re examines the concept of social work and research in the Indian and abroad context and attempts to integrate participatory.