| Preface | |
| Introduction: Coming of Age in Social Work - The Emergence of Qualitative Research | p. 1 |
| Ethnicity and Poverty as Research Variables: Family Studies with Mexican and Vietnamese Newcomers | p. 21 |
| Emic and Etic Perspectives in Ethnographic Research on the Interdisciplinary Team | p. 32 |
| Ethnography, Critical Inquiry, and Social Work Practice | p. 42 |
| The Administrator as Ethnographer and Cartographer | p. 52 |
| Commentary: Ethnography in Social Work | p. 63 |
| Science, Not Scientism: The Robustness of Naturalistic Clinical Research | p. 71 |
| Heuristic Guidelines for Naturalistic Qualitative Evaluations of Child Treatment | p. 89 |
| Hand into Glove: The Grounded Theory Approach and Social Work Practice Research | p. 115 |
| Understanding the Process of Social Drift Among the Homeless: A Qualitative Analysis | p. 126 |
| Collaboration Between Social Workers and Physicians: An Emerging Typology | p. 135 |
| Commentary: Grounded Theory Methods - Applications and Speculations | p. 152 |
| The Human Sciences, the Life Story, and Clinical Research | p. 163 |
| "Thick Description" Revisited: Family Therapist as Anthropologist-Constructivist | p. 175 |
| Life Forces of African-American Elderly Illustrated Through Oral History Narratives | p. 190 |
| Commentary: Narrative in Clinical Research | p. 200 |
| The Dialogical Analysis of Case Materials | p. 205 |
| Discourse Analysis Methods and Clinical Research: A Single Case Study | p. 216 |
| Discourse Analysis in the Framework of Change Process Research | p. 228 |
| Commentary: Discourse Theory and Analysis | p. 242 |
| The Qualitative Case Study and Evaluation: Issues, Methods, and Examples | p. 251 |
| Integrating the Data Processing of Qualitative Research and Social Work Practice to Advance the Practitioner as Knowledge Builder: Tools for Knowing and Doing | p. 265 |
| Commentary: A Practitioner's Perspective on Qualitative Case Evaluation Methods | p. 279 |
| Commentary: Wanted! Social Work Practice Evaluation and Research - All Methods Considered | p. 285 |
| A Positive Approach to Qualitative Evaluation and Policy Research in Social Work | p. 293 |
| Qualitative Evaluation Methods in the Public Sector: Understanding and Working With Constituency Groups in the Evaluation Process | p. 303 |
| Constructivist Evaluation: The Policy/Practice Context | p. 315 |
| Commentary: Evaluation in Context: Is There Any Other Way? | p. 328 |
| Tidiness in an Untidy World: Research in Child Welfare | p. 337 |
| Feminist Research Within a Battered Women's Shelter | p. 347 |
| Commentary: Managing the Organizational Context in Qualitative Research | p. 358 |
| Paradigm for Research in Context: An Example from Mental Health | p. 365 |
| Amplifying the Consumer Voice: Qualitative Methods, Empowerment, and Mental Health Research | p. 381 |
| Commentary: Can It Help Us Get There? A View of Qualitative Research in Mental Health in the 1990s | p. 396 |
| The Inevitability of Integrated Methods | p. 409 |
| Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Clinical Research | p. 423 |
| Grounded Theory Meets the Reflective Practitioner: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Administrative Practice | p. 435 |
| Commentary: Practitioner-Researcher Perspective on the Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods | p. 445 |
| Commentary: The Qualitative/Quantitative Debate: Moving Beyond Acrimony to Meaningful Dialogue | p. 452 |
| Setting the Theme: Many Ways of Knowing | p. 459 |
| Reframing the Epistemological Debate | p. 464 |
| Commentary on Reid's "Reframing the Epistemological Debate" | p. 482 |
| Commentary: Epistemological Disagreements and the Search for Understanding | p. 487 |
| Glossary | p. 493 |
| Contributors | p. 499 |
| Author Index | p. 507 |
| Subject Index | p. 517 |
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