31 Aug Social Work Research End of Class Reflection
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zo_JQZo3Y0
- "Rubin, A., & Babbie, E. (2017). Empowerment Series: Research Methods for Social Work (9th ed.) Cengage Learning, Inc."
- Using the above video and textbook answer the following questions as a discussion post:
- What specifically have you learned that will influence your work? Give 2 specific ways you will incorporate what you have learned.
- How will you use research to inform your work with clients? Give one specific example involving families or children and what type of research you might look up and read to augment your work with the client.
- Why is it important to evaluate the sources of research claims? How will you verify statistics that may be quoted on the news or on Facebook or other social media?
- Next, respond to the following to classmates SEPERATELY from eachother and from your response. This is a discussion post so they answered the same prompt that you are answering. You can respond in one or more of the following ways:
- Ask a probing or clarifying question.
- Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
- Offer, support, or challenge a position
- Expand on your colleague’s posting.
- Ask for evidence that supports the posting.
- What specifically have you learned that will influence your work? Give 2 specific ways you will incorporate what you have learned.
I would have to say the time and effort that goes into researching a specific topic. So many factors go into reseach. I think mostly I learned that to conduct research you need to have a focus, be prepared and know going into your research that it takes time, effort, a lot of work and reseach. Two specific ways I will incorporate what I have learned are first and foremost, making sure that any reseach I conduct is done ethically. And second, I would always do everything I can to fact check information by using credible sources.
- How will you use research to inform your work with clients? Give one specific example of a population and what type of research you might look up and read to augment your work with the client.
The population that I would use to look up research would be addicts and alcoholics. I would use statistical reseach because I am always interested in the statistics surrounding addiction, overdoses and anything related.
- Why is it important to evaluate the sources of research claims? How will you verify statistics that may be quoted on the news or on Facebook or other social media?
It is important to evaluate sources because you need to make sure that the sources you are using are credible. There is so much information out there, that it is very important to make sure the information you are using is the correct informatioin. I would verify the statistics found on the above sources by re-checking those statistics on a credible scholarly site. For myself, I would use sites and organizations such as SAMSHA, NIDA, NIH, etc.
