Download or read book Foundations of Research Methods for Social Workers written by Richard Grinnell, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK IS FOR BEGINNING SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS as their first introduction to basic social work research methodology. Our philosophy is to provide a very inexpensive, easily accessible, straightforward, "student-friendly" book that promotes the use of the scientific method of inquiry process to create knowledge for our profession-the most commonly used framework to generate relevant, valid, and reliable social work knowledge. A conversational style of writing is used in an effort to provide simple, reader-friendly content.