Uses and Abuses of Social Research in Social Work

Because of the increasing conceptual development of single-subject research in recent years, and of statistical methods of analysis of single-subject data, it is not difficult either to teach or to learn this content area. The implementation of this content as a significant component of a social work curriculum does give rise to several issues, however. These issues, as well as the argument for the stage at which single-subject research is introduced into the curriculum, are discussed in this paper.