In the field of social work, qualitative research is starting to gain more prominence as are mixed methods and various issues regarding race, ethnicity and gender. This work reflects this field and contains meta analysis, designs to evaluate treatment and provides the support to help students harness the power of the Internet.

In the field of social work, qualitative research is starting to gain more prominence as are mixed methods and various issues regarding race, ethnicity and gender. These changes in the field are reflected and updated in “The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods, Second Edition”. This text contains meta analysis, designs to evaluate treatment and provides the support to help students harness the power of the Internet. This handbook brings together leading scholars in research methods in social work.

Bruce Thyer, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Work with Florida State University, as well as the founding and continuing Editor of the Journal Research on Social Work Practice. Dr. Thyer has authored/co-authored over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of social work, psychology, psychiatry, behavior analysis, and evaluation, as well as over 50 book chapters and about 20 books in these areas. In 2005, one of his articles on evidence-based practice in social work received a Pro Humanities Award from the North American Center for Child Welfare. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and one of the Founders of the Society for Social Work and Research.