What Contribution Can Research Make to Social Care
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What Contribution Can Research Make To Social Care? Give Brief Examples Of Uses In Policy And Practice.
Our Combined experiences of researching and working in health and social care settings over a number of years have led us to recognise the value of action research in helping practitioners, managers and researchers to make sense of problems in service delivery and in promoting initiatives for change and improvement. (Hart & Bond 1995)
Elizabeth Hart and Meg Bond (1995) conduct research in the health and social care setting. They both consider research to be very important and an important option that needs to be considered by practitioners to improve professional practice and standards within health and social care.
Research happens all around us on a daily basis. This can take place by questionnaires, telephone conversation, interview, or observations. Research happens for a variety of reasons and is conducted over large subject groups.
Research methods are a central part of the social sciences. They constitute an important part of their curricula and provide a means through which intellectual development is enhanced. (May 2001)
May feels that research is critical and important to the health and social care field? However "people within the care disciplines may characterise themselves as 'theorists' rather than researchers." (May 2001 pg 2)
One aspect of the health and social care field that I have always held an interest in is domestic violence. Domestic violence is a subject that carries a lot of research around it. However a true representation of findings can never be or will be ever brought to light on this subject. Domestic violence is an extremely sensitive issue that holds a lot of ethical problems with the research and true findings may not always be given.
Queen Mary, University of London 2002 reviewed on Department Of Health recommendations that all health care professionals should consider 'routine enquiry' of all women patients questioning...
Our Combined experiences of researching and working in health and social care settings over a number of years have led us to recognise the value of action research in helping practitioners, managers and researchers to make sense of problems in service delivery and in promoting initiatives for change and improvement. (Hart & Bond 1995)
Elizabeth Hart and Meg Bond (1995) conduct research in the health and social care setting. They both consider research to be very important and an important option that needs to be considered by practitioners to improve professional practice and standards within health and social care.
Research happens all around us on a daily basis. This can take place by questionnaires, telephone conversation, interview, or observations. Research happens for a variety of reasons and is conducted over large subject groups.
Research methods are a central part of the social sciences. They constitute an important part of their curricula and provide a means through which intellectual development is enhanced. (May 2001)
May feels that research is critical and important to the health and social care field? However "people within the care disciplines may characterise themselves as 'theorists' rather than researchers." (May 2001 pg 2)
One aspect of the health and social care field that I have always held an interest in is domestic violence. Domestic violence is a subject that carries a lot of research around it. However a true representation of findings can never be or will be ever brought to light on this subject. Domestic violence is an extremely sensitive issue that holds a lot of ethical problems with the research and true findings may not always be given.
Queen Mary, University of London 2002 reviewed on Department Of Health recommendations that all health care professionals should consider 'routine enquiry' of all women patients questioning...