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Applying Critical Thinking and Analysis in Social Work
by Michaela Rogers Dan AllenThis highly practical guidebook will help you develop the critical and analytical skills essential to your successful social work education and evidence-informed, reflective practice. Mapped to international social work core competencies, it takes you through the complete critical thinking process that you're required to know as a social work student. Key features include: - Theoretical break down and simplification of key theories – How to avoid common pitfalls - Activities to help you cement your learning - Case studies applicable in practice. This will support you right from the very beginning of your programme through to the end of your final placement and into practice.
Applying Critical Thinking and Analysis in Social Work
by Michaela Rogers Dan AllenThis highly practical guidebook will help you develop the critical and analytical skills essential to your successful social work education and evidence-informed, reflective practice. Mapped to international social work core competencies, it takes you through the complete critical thinking process that you're required to know as a social work student. Key features include: - Theoretical break down and simplification of key theories – How to avoid common pitfalls - Activities to help you cement your learning - Case studies applicable in practice. This will support you right from the very beginning of your programme through to the end of your final placement and into practice.
Applying Dynamic Assessment in Schools: A Practical Approach to Improve Learning
by Fraser Lauchlan Clare DalyDynamic assessment is a collaborative, flexible approach to assessment which explores how a child learns and which aspects of their learning require intervention.Learn how you can improve learning with a whole school approach to dynamic assessment complete with classroom ideas, resources, and strategies. The authors who frequently train in DA provide simple explanations of the contemporary model of dynamic assessment that make the links between theory and practice explicit. . Each chapter has designated downloadable resources such as rating scales of affective and cognitive learning, checklists, goal ladders and more with easy-to-follow instructions on how they should be used.This book will support you to understand DA principles and actively demonstrate mediated learning for meaningful interventions, consultations, clear support strategies and effective feedback and feedforward skills to not only help students learn, but to help them learn better.
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach
by Michael J. O'Brien R. Lee LymanAnthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere in the text. If for some reason the word itself is absent, the odds are excellent that at least the concept of change over time will have a central role in the discussion. After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household word, usually being used synonymously with change, albeit change over extended periods of time. Later, through the writings of Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, and others, the notion of evolution as it applies to stages of social and political development assumed a prominent position in anthropological disc- sions. To those with only a passing knowledge of American anthropology, it often appears that evolutionism in the early twentieth century went into a decline at the hands of Franz Boas and those of similar outlook, often termed particularists. However, it was not evolutionism that was under attack but rather comparativism— an approach that used the ethnographic present as a key to understanding how and why past peoples lived the way they did (Boas 1896).
Applying Ibn Khaldn: The Recovery Of A Lost Tradition In Sociology (PDF)
by Syed Farid AlatasThe writings of Ibn Khaldn, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldn has been widely regarded as the founder of sociology, or at least a precursor of modern sociology. While he was given this recognition, however, few works went beyond proclaiming him as a founder or precursor to the systematic application of his theoretical perspective to specific historical and contemporary aspects of Muslim societies in North Africa and the Middle East. The continuing presence of Eurocentrism in the social sciences has not helped in this regard: it often stands in the way of the consideration of non-Western sources of theories and concepts. This book provides an overview of Ibn Khaldn and his sociology, discusses reasons for his marginality, and suggests ways to bring Ibn Khaldn into the mainstream through the systematic application of his theory. It moves beyond works that simply state that Ibn Khaldn was a founder of sociology or provide descriptive accounts of his works. Instead it systematically applies Khaldn theoretical perspective to specific historical aspects of Muslim societies in North Africa and the Middle East, successfully integrating concepts and frameworks from Khaldnnian sociology into modern social science theories. Applying Ibn Khaldn will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and social theory.
Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data (Statistics for Biology and Health)
by Matthew P. Fox Timothy L. Lash Aliza K. FinkBias analysis quantifies the influence of systematic error on an epidemiology study’s estimate of association. The fundamental methods of bias analysis in epi- miology have been well described for decades, yet are seldom applied in published presentations of epidemiologic research. More recent advances in bias analysis, such as probabilistic bias analysis, appear even more rarely. We suspect that there are both supply-side and demand-side explanations for the scarcity of bias analysis. On the demand side, journal reviewers and editors seldom request that authors address systematic error aside from listing them as limitations of their particular study. This listing is often accompanied by explanations for why the limitations should not pose much concern. On the supply side, methods for bias analysis receive little attention in most epidemiology curriculums, are often scattered throughout textbooks or absent from them altogether, and cannot be implemented easily using standard statistical computing software. Our objective in this text is to reduce these supply-side barriers, with the hope that demand for quantitative bias analysis will follow.
Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data (Statistics for Biology and Health)
by Matthew P. Fox Richard F. MacLehose Timothy L. LashThis textbook and guide focuses on methodologies for bias analysis in epidemiology and public health, not only providing updates to the first edition but also further developing methods and adding new advanced methods. As computational power available to analysts has improved and epidemiologic problems have become more advanced, missing data, Bayes, and empirical methods have become more commonly used. This new edition features updated examples throughout and adds coverage addressing: Measurement error pertaining to continuous and polytomous variables Methods surrounding person-time (rate) data Bias analysis using missing data, empirical (likelihood), and Bayes methods A unique feature of this revision is its section on best practices for implementing, presenting, and interpreting bias analyses. Pedagogically, the text guides students and professionals through the planning stages of bias analysis, including the design of validation studies and the collection of validity data from other sources. Three chapters present methods for corrections to address selection bias, uncontrolled confounding, and measurement errors, and subsequent sections extend these methods to probabilistic bias analysis, missing data methods, likelihood-based approaches, Bayesian methods, and best practices.
Applying Regression and Correlation: A Guide for Students and Researchers
by Dr Jeremy Miles Dr Mark ShevlinThis book takes a fresh look at applying regression analysis in the behavioural sciences by introducing the reader to regression analysis through a simple model-building approach. The authors start with the basics and begin by re-visiting the mean, and the standard deviation, with which most readers will already be familiar, and show that they can be thought of a least squares model. The book then shows that this least squares model is actually a special case of a regression analysis and can be extended to deal with first one, and then more than one independent variable. Extending the model from the mean to a regression analysis provides a powerful, but simple, way of thinking about what students believe are the more complex aspects of regression analysis. The authors gradually extend the model to include aspects of regression analysis such as non-linear regression, logistic regression, and moderator and mediator analysis. These approaches are often presented in terms that are too mathematical for non-statistically inclined students to deal with. Throughout the book maintains a conceptual, non-mathematical focus. Most equations are placed in an appendix, where a detailed explanation is given, to avoid disrupting the flow of the main text. This book will be indispensable for anyone using regression and correlation from undergraduates doing projects to postgraduate and researchers.
Applying Regression and Correlation: A Guide for Students and Researchers (PDF)
by Dr Mark Shevlin Dr Jeremy MilesThis book takes a fresh look at applying regression analysis in the behavioural sciences by introducing the reader to regression analysis through a simple model-building approach. The authors start with the basics and begin by re-visiting the mean, and the standard deviation, with which most readers will already be familiar, and show that they can be thought of a least squares model. The book then shows that this least squares model is actually a special case of a regression analysis and can be extended to deal with first one, and then more than one independent variable. Extending the model from the mean to a regression analysis provides a powerful, but simple, way of thinking about what students believe are the more complex aspects of regression analysis. The authors gradually extend the model to include aspects of regression analysis such as non-linear regression, logistic regression, and moderator and mediator analysis. These approaches are often presented in terms that are too mathematical for non-statistically inclined students to deal with. Throughout the book maintains a conceptual, non-mathematical focus. Most equations are placed in an appendix, where a detailed explanation is given, to avoid disrupting the flow of the main text. This book will be indispensable for anyone using regression and correlation from undergraduates doing projects to postgraduate and researchers.
Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, and Society
by Fran�ois D�pelteau and Christopher PowellEdited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.
Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to Migrant Populations: Lessons from the Field
by G. Tyldum L. JohnstonThis book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of experts in the field as well as pioneers that have applied Respondent Driven Sampling methodology to migrant populations.
Applying Risk-Sharing Finance for Economic Development: Lessons from Germany (Political Economy of Islam)
by Putri Swastika Abbas MirakhorThis book examines the application of risk-sharing finance as a national economic policy in history and how it stimulated economic recovery during a short period in Germany between 1933 and 1935. Economic history indicates that risk-sharing instruments have promoted socio-economic development in many parts of the world while risk-shifting methods have imposed huge socio-economic costs on many nations, leading to debt slavery on individual members. This book highlights lessons to be learned from history and argues that risk-sharing is a powerful tool for generating rapid economic recovery and resumption of growth.
Applying Social Policy to Criminal Justice Practice: What Every Practitioner Should Know
by Clive SealeyThis book aims to make clear the interconnections between social policy and criminal justice practice, bringing together key social policy concepts within a framework for reducing reoffending rates. The book focuses on the key social policy issues of employment, health and mental health, low income and poverty, housing and family. It shows how understanding and treating these as issues interconnected to criminal justice outcomes can and does lead to improvements in criminal justice practice. This book enables students and criminal justice practitioners to understand how a social policy focus can better inform practice with those involved in the criminal justice system. It features: • a 10 point summary of key points for learning; • chapter heading questions to support independent learning; • tables and graphs to illustrate the text.
Applying Social Policy to Criminal Justice Practice: What Every Practitioner Should Know
by Clive SealeyThis book aims to make clear the interconnections between social policy and criminal justice practice, bringing together key social policy concepts within a framework for reducing reoffending rates. The book focuses on the key social policy issues of employment, health and mental health, low income and poverty, housing and family. It shows how understanding and treating these as issues interconnected to criminal justice outcomes can and does lead to improvements in criminal justice practice. This book enables students and criminal justice practitioners to understand how a social policy focus can better inform practice with those involved in the criminal justice system. It features: • a 10 point summary of key points for learning; • chapter heading questions to support independent learning; • tables and graphs to illustrate the text.
Applying Social Work Theory: A Journal
by Barbara BassotAs a social worker, theory can offer meaningful ways to better understand and support the people you work with. However, sometimes it can be challenging to connect the theories learned about in class and training, with the complex real-life situations encountered as a practitioner.Applying Social Work Theory: A Journal is an innovative tool for learning and applying social work theory to practice. Designed to be written in, this unique journal encourages more active and creative engagement with theory in three parts: · Part I introduces twelve of the most common theories covered on social work courses, with case studies to illustrate how these can be applied· Part II demonstrates how you can apply multiple theories to three complex case studies from social work practice· Part III offers guidance on writing your own case studies based on your practice placementEach chapter starts with a short and accessible summary of the theory and then presents five practical steps to help you understand and use the theory in your practice. By answering reflective questions, completing exercises and applying theories to case studies and your own experiences, you will become more confident in engaging with theory.This book is a must-have companion for social work students on placement and qualified social workers new to the field.
Applying Social Work Theory: A Journal
by Barbara BassotAs a social worker, theory can offer meaningful ways to better understand and support the people you work with. However, sometimes it can be challenging to connect the theories learned about in class and training, with the complex real-life situations encountered as a practitioner.Applying Social Work Theory: A Journal is an innovative tool for learning and applying social work theory to practice. Designed to be written in, this unique journal encourages more active and creative engagement with theory in three parts: · Part I introduces twelve of the most common theories covered on social work courses, with case studies to illustrate how these can be applied· Part II demonstrates how you can apply multiple theories to three complex case studies from social work practice· Part III offers guidance on writing your own case studies based on your practice placementEach chapter starts with a short and accessible summary of the theory and then presents five practical steps to help you understand and use the theory in your practice. By answering reflective questions, completing exercises and applying theories to case studies and your own experiences, you will become more confident in engaging with theory.This book is a must-have companion for social work students on placement and qualified social workers new to the field.
Applying Strengths-Based Approaches in Social Work
by Deanna Edwards and Kate ParkinsonThis textbook offers students and practitioners an accessible introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case studies, the book will allow readers to develop a critical understanding of how strengths-based approaches work, and how they can be successfully applied in order to improve outcomes for people with lived experience. Covering the five main models of strengths-based practice, the text presents international research and evidence on the efficacy of each approach, enabling students and practitioners to apply the benefits in their own social work practice. The guide features the perspectives of people with lived experience throughout and includes the following key learning features: • case studies of best practice; • points for practice: succinct tips for practitioners and students on practice placement; • further reading list and resources; • glossary.
Applying Strengths-Based Approaches in Social Work
This textbook offers students and practitioners an accessible introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case studies, the book will allow readers to develop a critical understanding of how strengths-based approaches work, and how they can be successfully applied in order to improve outcomes for people with lived experience. Covering the five main models of strengths-based practice, the text presents international research and evidence on the efficacy of each approach, enabling students and practitioners to apply the benefits in their own social work practice. The guide features the perspectives of people with lived experience throughout and includes the following key learning features: • case studies of best practice; • points for practice: succinct tips for practitioners and students on practice placement; • further reading list and resources; • glossary.
Applying the Therapeutic Function of Professional Supervision: Attending to the Emotional Impacts of Human Service Work
by Nicki WeldThis book brings a fresh approach and conversation to the practice of professional supervision for human services by specifically articulating its often performed, but unnamed and under-explored therapeutic function. The discussion of the therapeutic function is timely given the rising complexities in our world, and the increasing awareness of emotional impacts of human service work. These impacts include stress, distress, emotional labour, indirect trauma, and direct trauma. Posing a challenge and invitation to supervisors to comfortably inhabit the therapeutic function of supervision to increase emotional support to workers, it places safe practice and worker wellbeing at the heart of supervision to enable high quality service delivery for often the most vulnerable in society. While underpinned by theory, it is written to be practically applied and is developed from a ‘lived experience’ perspective, offering a unique glimpse into actual practice. By modelling one of the main aims of professional supervision, which is to facilitate and enable the integration of experience into learning and knowledge, it will be of interest to all practitioners across a broad range of human services, particularly both new and experienced supervisors.
Applying the Therapeutic Function of Professional Supervision: Attending to the Emotional Impacts of Human Service Work
by Nicki WeldThis book brings a fresh approach and conversation to the practice of professional supervision for human services by specifically articulating its often performed, but unnamed and under-explored therapeutic function. The discussion of the therapeutic function is timely given the rising complexities in our world, and the increasing awareness of emotional impacts of human service work. These impacts include stress, distress, emotional labour, indirect trauma, and direct trauma. Posing a challenge and invitation to supervisors to comfortably inhabit the therapeutic function of supervision to increase emotional support to workers, it places safe practice and worker wellbeing at the heart of supervision to enable high quality service delivery for often the most vulnerable in society. While underpinned by theory, it is written to be practically applied and is developed from a ‘lived experience’ perspective, offering a unique glimpse into actual practice. By modelling one of the main aims of professional supervision, which is to facilitate and enable the integration of experience into learning and knowledge, it will be of interest to all practitioners across a broad range of human services, particularly both new and experienced supervisors.
Appraisal: Results of SIEV 2015 (Green Energy and Technology)
by Stefano Stanghellini Pierluigi Morano Marta Bottero Alessandra OppioThis book documents the state of the art and the emerging operational perspectives in the field of the appraisal discipline. It covers a wide range of topics, including energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, socio-economic evaluation of regional and urban transformations, real estate and facility management, risk management. It also discusses the potential role of appraisal in minimising unexpected consequences; the role of evaluators in urban development projects as well as the contribution of several methodologies with respect to the overall planning and design processes; the need to manage the complexity of the current decision contexts, while at the same time promoting efficient and effective evaluation processes; improving the quality of discussion and communication of the outcomes of evaluation processes; as well as the appropriateness of current regulation and policy regimes (EU, national, regional etc.). It comprises a selection of the best papers presented at the SIEV 2015 conference "Appraisal: Current Issues and Problems", which was held in Bari, Italy, in July 2015, and brought together architects, engineers, urban planners, decision-makers and government representatives.
Appraising and Using Social Research in the Human Services: An Introduction for Social Work and Health Professionals
by Michael SheppardThis accessible introduction provides social work students and practitioners with the knowledge they need both to evaluate research and to apply it to their own practice. Exploring a range of research methodologies, the author discusses the strengths and limitations of each and shows the reader how to identify the assumptions underlying them.
Appräsentation, Zeichen und Symbol: Eine kulturphilosophisch-phänomenologische Grundlegung im Anschluss an Alfred Schütz und Edmund Husserl (Phaenomenologica #236)
by Benjamin StuckAppräsentation gehört zu den Schlüsselkonzepten im Werk des Philosophen und Begründers der Phänomenologie Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) und des ihm nachfolgenden Alfred Schütz (1899–1959). In dem Buch bringt der Autor die Ergebnisse ihrer lebenswelttheoretischen Forschung zusammen und systematisiert ihre Überlegungen zur Appräsentation – dem Mitgegebensein von etwas, das eigentlich nicht da ist. Dies nimmt er zum Ausgangspunkt, um sich mit der kulturphilosophischen These auseinanderzusetzen, nach der menschliche Erfahrung kulturell geprägt ist. Das Erklärungspotenzial der transzendentalphänomenologischen Tradition Husserls und der mundanphänomenologischen Tradition von Schütz demonstriert der Autor an zwei Beispielen aus der Kulturphilosophie und der Kultursoziologie. Was leistet also das Konzept der Appräsentation im Detail und wie kann es helfen kulturelle Sinnkonstitution zu beschreiben? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird im ersten Teil des Werks zunächst die Phänomenologie an die Logik der Kulturwissenschaften angeknüpft, um dann die Bedeutung appräsentativer Beziehungen bei Husserl zu klären – beispielsweise für das Bewusstsein von Zeit, der Horizontstruktur von Erfahrungen oder Einfühlung. Im nächsten Schritt legt der Autor den Stellenwert von Appräsentationsbeziehungen im Werk von Schütz offen. Er fragt nach ihren Dimensionen, wie sie in Schütz‘ weit ausdifferenzierten Symbol- und Zeichentheorie zum Ausdruck kommt, anhand derer er Kulturalität und Sozialität phänomenologisch beschreibt. Die Analyse bringt zweierlei hervor: die Bedeutung des appräsentativen Mitdaseins von Erfahrungsaspekten und die komplexe appräsentative Relation von unterschiedlichen Sinnschemata als Grundelement kultureller Sinnsetzung. Diese erste Monographie zum Thema der Appräsentation und der appräsentativen Beziehungen erscheint in der Buchreihe Phaenomenologica. Das Werk richtet sich an Studierende und Forschende aus den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften mit Interesse an Phänomenologie, soziologischer Theorie oder Kulturphilosophie.
Appreciating the Art of Television: A Philosophical Perspective (Routledge Advances in Television Studies)
by Ted NannicelliContemporary television has been marked by such exceptional programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television, Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent development, but has in fact existed for a long time. Yet despite the flourishing of two relevant academic subfields—the philosophy of film and television aesthetics—there is little scholarship on television, in general, as an art form. This book aims to provide scholars active in television aesthetics with a critical overview of the relevant philosophical literature, while also giving philosophers of film a particular account of the art of television that will hopefully spur further interest and debate. It offers the first sustained theoretical examination of what is involved in appreciating television as an art and how this bears on the practical business of television scholars, critics, students, and fans—namely the comprehension, interpretation, and evaluation of specific televisual artworks.
Appreciating the Art of Television: A Philosophical Perspective (Routledge Advances in Television Studies)
by Ted NannicelliContemporary television has been marked by such exceptional programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television, Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent development, but has in fact existed for a long time. Yet despite the flourishing of two relevant academic subfields—the philosophy of film and television aesthetics—there is little scholarship on television, in general, as an art form. This book aims to provide scholars active in television aesthetics with a critical overview of the relevant philosophical literature, while also giving philosophers of film a particular account of the art of television that will hopefully spur further interest and debate. It offers the first sustained theoretical examination of what is involved in appreciating television as an art and how this bears on the practical business of television scholars, critics, students, and fans—namely the comprehension, interpretation, and evaluation of specific televisual artworks.