A brief guide to help students understand difficult terms in their research courses. This pocket guide is in an ideal supplement to the many discipline specific texts on research methods and statistics. The authors are prominent researchers and have years of writing and research experience. The book will also contain an interactive CD rom, which can be downloaded to their pc and searched as needed. The book contains over 1000 research and statistical terms, written in jargon free, easy to understand terminology. It will be a quick guide for students who are taking research methods courses as...

This textpresents field-tested assessments and interventions for evidence-informedchild welfarepractice. Chapters includecontributions fromsocial workers ina variety of social welfare settings and cover key issues such as substance abuse, child maltreatment, parent training, and preventative services in child welfare work. The analysis of these field-tested evidence-informed assessments yields insightful conclusions on future directions for child welfare research and policy."