S W 313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ad Hominem, Ex Post Facto Law, Pseudoscience
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Social workers should understand research in order to guide their practice. Interventions used by social workers should be tested for results which requires research. Main reason to do research is compassion for our clients. To test the quality of other known social work research. Ethics is one major concern of social workers when considering research. The code of ethics of the national association of social workers requires social workers to keep current with research and professional literature. Research offers social workers an opportunity to make a difference with problems they may run across. Most of what we know is a matter of agreement and belief. Knowledge can also come from direct experience and observation. The scientific method is sciences approach to both agreement reality and experiential reality. Scientific method an approach to inquiry that attempts to safeguard against errors commonly made in causal human inquiry.
