Statistics for Social Workers

Robert W. Weinbach Ph. D. MSW ACSW is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina where he continues to teach graduate level research courses in the College of Social Work. He is also a co-author of Research Methods for Social Workers seventh Edition; The Social Worker as Manager Sixth Edition; and is the author of Evaluating Social Work Services and Programs (all published by Allyn & Bacon) as well as over 75 other publications and invited book chapters. He earned graduate degrees in social work from SUNY-Buffalo and Ohio State University and has worked in both medical and psychiatric social work practice and as a program evaluator. Richard M. Grinnell Jr. is a Professor of Social Work and holds the Clair and Clarice Platt Jones/Helen Frays Endowed Chair of Social Work Research in the School of Social Work at Western Michigan University. He received his Ph. D. in social work from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and for over the past 40 years has held academic and senior university administrative appointments in Australia Canada and the United States. He has published over 100 journal articles book chapters and conference presentations and 36 books. His two latest books are Evaluation for Social Workers: Foundations of EvidenceBased Programs 6th edition (Oxford University Press 2012 with Peter Gabor and Yvonne Unrau) and Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice 10th edition (Oxford University Press 2014 with Yvonne Unrau). . Language: English