1st Edition

Using the Internet as a Research Tool for Social Work and Human Services

By Goutham Menon Copyright 2002
156 Pages
by CRC Press

Researchers and instructors: examine ways to make the Internet work to your advantage! Using the Internet as a Research Tool for Social Work and Human Services examines the exciting benefits for social workers of using the Internet to facilitate their studies. By introducing various methodologies and insights, this book explains how the Web can be a valuable and legitimate form of research. This... Read more
  • Using the Internet as a Tool for Research
  • The Internet: A Virtually Untapped Tool for Research
  • Present Day Use of the Internet for Survey-Based Research
  • Collecting Data via the Internet: The Development and Deployment of a Web-Based Survey
  • Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Researching a Computer-Mediated Group
  • Prospects and Limitations of Psychological Testing on the Internet
  • Walking Through the Fire: Integrating Technology to Enhance the Research Skills of Minority Mental Health Student Researchers
  • We?d Like to Ask You Some Questions, But We Have to Find You First: An Internet-Based Study of Lesbian Clients in Therapy with Lesbian Feminist Therapists
  • Problems and Promises in the Study of Virtual Communities
  • Kermitt: Conducting an Experiment on the Web
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Goutham M Menon