Relationship-based research in social work : understanding practice research / edited by Gillian Ruch and Ilse Julkunen ; foreword by Irwin Epstein.

Relationship-based research is founded on the idea that human relationships are of paramount importance and should be central to social work research and practice. Drawing on psychodynamic and systemic understandings of research and practice, this book offers practitioners and academics an insight into what constitutes relationship-based approaches to research. These ideas are brought to life by illustrative case studies of research projects carried out in England and Finland, where the concept originated. The authors clearly demonstrate how this approach can be applied across the social work sector and provide a model for practice. This will be a key reference for social work students, practitioners on post-qualifying courses, research students, and consultant and senior practitioner social workers promoting research-informed practice.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing the book -- Developing relevant and respectful research relationships -- Doing practice research that matters -- Ethnography on the 'front line': why some teams struggle and others thrive -- Collaborative knowledge production in research practice: the development of the 'mirror' method in team settings -- Exploring relationships through ethnography: a research study of boys in school -- Using observation to research the experiences of teenagers with severe learning disabilities: observing the 'ordinary' -- Undertaking a co-operative inquiry in a children's social care service: prerequisites, opportunities, complexities and challenges in achieving relationship-based research -- Critical reflection on fiction: increasing practitioner reflexivity, making knowledge and enhancing practice -- Exploring relationships and emotions through reflexive secondary data analysis: peer supporters', professionals' and clients' experiences of a finnish street-level substance misuse clinic -- Designing a qualitative research study: giving fathers with cancer a voice -- Getting to the heart of relationships in social work research in practice.

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In English.

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