TY - BOOK AU - Teater, Barbra AU - Teater, Barbra AU - Devaney, John AU - Forrester, Donald AU - Scourfield, Jonathan AU - Carpnter, John TI - Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work: Making Social Work Count SN - 9781137400260 U1 - 001.42 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Social service - Research N1 - 1. Introduction 2. Why numbers matter in social work 3. Who is being studied? 4. What is being studied? 5. How to describe issues using numbers 6. How to know if a service makes a difference 7. How to use numbers to describe a sample 8. How to make a decision with confidence 9. How to know if two variables are related 10. What is the effect of one or more variables on another variable? 11. What are the key elements of ethical quantitative research? 12. How to do quantitative research without collecting new data 13. How to combine qualitative and quantitative methods in social work ER -