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Define Human Services
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Organizations established to help people in various ways. Ex. foster care, help for elderly
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How do human service research and practice contribute to each other?
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They determine what tx are effective. Can provide scientifically valid knowledge
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Define effective practice.
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Managed care more closely monitors tx for cost effectiveness & accountability.
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What is social research and its objectives?
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icial research is dived into descriptive, predictive, explanatory, and evaluation.
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What are the three objectives of social research?
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It is systematic. All aspects of research planned in advance
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What are the objectives of social research?
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It gathers empiracal (info or facts about the world based on sensory experiences) data.
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What are the objectives of social research?
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It studies social and psychological factors that affect human behavior
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List the four types of research with examples.
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Attempts to discover facts or To discover facts or describe reality. Example: what are people's attitudes toward welfare? What is domestic violence?
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...2. Predictive:
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Make predictions about what might occur in the future or in other settings. Example: making predictions about how long people will live
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...3. Explanatory:
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Explains how or why something occurs. Focuses on why something happened. Example: find out why some people become deliquent.
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...4. Evaluatiion:
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Focus on planning intervention programs using scientific research methods, monitor new ones, evaluate old ones. Example: to get funding you must prove it works
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Define two types of research:
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Basic and Applied
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Define Basic Research:
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Pure research. Purpose is to advance knowledge about human behavior with little concern for immediate benefits. No research standards
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Define Applied research:
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Designed with practical outcome in mind and with assumption that some group or society as a whole will gain benefits from it. (used in human svcs.)
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Application of social research is in five areas: Behavioral and Social environments
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Study to gain understanding of the people we serve and the social environment they live in.
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...2. Study to Assess Needs
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Assess the needs of people, highly descriptive. Example: assess the community for needs for mental health svcs.
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...3. Study to Assess client functioning.
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Assess global functioning level. Various areas of life are accounted for here to determine needs of client.
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...4. Study to evaluate larger scale program
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This entails use of scientific research to assess results of a program and evaluate whether it reached its goals
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...5. Study to assess effectiveness of intervention on individual, family, or focused group.
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Assess efficacy of intervention efforts on specific clients. Example is single cell design/single system design. To repeatedly measure a problem, apply intervention then monitor behavior. Compare baseline behavior with post intervention behavior.
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What is the difference between above two strategies?
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Scope of efforts is the difference: Macro focuses on complete programs vs. study of a particular aspect of a practice situation that will not necessarily impact entire probram.
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What about special issues with regard to minorities?
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Minorities tend to suffer disproportionately from the problems that human service workers try to alleviate.. Many social conditions affect minorities negatively and limit opportunities and achievement potential
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Name the six stage division of the research process.
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Problem formulation, design development, data collection, data analysis, drawing conclsions, public dissemination.
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1. Define problem formulation.
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First step of research, the problem, needs to be something for which empiracal data can be gathered to develop a researchable problem.
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2. Define research design development.
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A detailed plan outlining how observations will be made. Plan closely followed and always addresses who will be studied, how people will be selected, what info will be gathered.
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3. Define data collection
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Describes what kinds of data will be collected and how it will be done. Two aspects are: pilot study - small scale run, and pretest - preliminary application of data-gathering technique for purpose of determining its adequacy.
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