Social Policy in Social Work PhD Programs in the United States

Autor/inn/en	Lightfoot, Elizabeth; Gal, John; Weiss-Gal, Idit
Titel	Social Policy in Social Work PhD Programs in the United States
Quelle	In: Research on Social Work Practice, 28 (2018) 3, S.234-242 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1049-7315
DOI	10.1177/1049731517710328
Schlagwörter	Social Work; Professional Education; Doctoral Programs; Policy; Policy Analysis; Theories; Research Methodology; College Curriculum; Doctoral Dissertations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Arbeit; Berufsausbildung; Doktorandenprogramm; Politik; Politikfeldanalyse; Theory; Theorie; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift
Abstract	While there has been a long-standing concern about the role of policy within social work education and social work practice, most of the emphasis has been on social work education at the BSW and MSW levels. This article examines policy education at the PhD level. It first explores how policy is taught in social work PhD programs in the United States, with an emphasis on how policy theory and research methods are included. Next, it explores the nature of policy research conducted by social work PhD students in the United States by examining the policy content in their doctoral dissertations. This study finds that policy research methods and policy study theories are only taught in a minority of social work PhD programs. In addition, very few social work doctoral dissertations have a policy focus. Of those that do, over half focus on program evaluation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01