Do Social Workers Understand Research?

The Association of Burnout and Social Work Practitioners' Impressions of Their Clients

“…Schwartz (1974), for example, found clinical workers to have a negative bias in evaluating their female clients. Fischer et al (1976). however, found a pro-female bias among social workers, a finding not supported in Dailey's (1980) replication.…”

“…This represents a response rate of 46.3%, which Babbie (1979) considers adequate for data analysis and is a generally high rate for survey of NASW members (Kirk & Fischer, 1976).…”

Job satisfaction and job stress among African‐American human service workers

“…(Kirk & Fischer, 1976;Taber & Vattano, 1970). The 123 questionnaires were reviewed and all were found to be appropriate for inclusion in the study.…”

Applied research in social work: Conceptions of scientific practice

“…The transmission and use of classical research in/ormation in practice: A common theme of empirically-oriented practice is that workers should make maximum use of available research, while recognizing its limitations stemming from conceptualization, design, analysis, and/or interpretations. At present, there is grave concern about whether social workers read, understand, accept, or translate for use the available empirical literature (Rosenblatt, 1968;Brittain, 1970;Casselman, 1972;Kirk and Fischer, 1976;Kirk, Osmalov, and Fischer, 1976;Kirk and Rosenblatt, 1977). Another concern involves the elimination of the research thesis requirement in many graduate schools of social work (Zimbalist, 1974).…”