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Das Buch Social Work Research – Ethical and Political Contexts ist als Einführungstext konzipiert, der direkt aus der Lehrtätigkeit beider Autoren entspringt. Als solches ist es ein gutes Buch, das die Breite qualitativen und quantitativen Forschens kompetent abdeckt. Der Text ergreift klar Position für Randgruppen und für "Unterprivilegierte". Es ist damit politisch nicht neutral, allerdings wird die politische Parteinahme auch nicht übertrieben. Das Buch hat überwiegend einen exzellenten Standard. Die Gliederung des Textes ist gut und jedes Kapitel wird durch eine Einleitung am Anfang und eine Zusammenfassung am Ende übersichtlich strukturiert. Es hat Spaß gemacht, dieses Buch zu rezensieren – und manchmal war es stimulierend, aber dann und wann auch frustrierend, weil es zuweilen weniger gehalten hat als ich mir versprochen hatte., This book is about doing social work research and comes straight from its authors’ practices as social work teachers. Well written, it tackles most of the wide-ranging topics in qualitative and quantitative research. Not politically neutral, the book has a clear bias, advocating for the marginalised and dispossessed. Its politics are not overbearing, however, and the quality of much of the material is excellent. It was a great pleasure to review this stimulating and interesting book, although frustrating, too, because it made me at times hopeful that it would go further in its range and coverage than it did. In sum, it is a well structured book and each chapter has an introduction and a final summary of the main points., Este libro trata sobre la investigación en trabajo social y resulta directamente de las prácticas de sus autores como profesores de trabajo social. Con una buena redacción, aborda muchos de los tópicos en la amplia gama de la investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa. El libro no es políticamente neutral y toma una posición clara a favor de lo marginal y lo desposeído. Si bien las políticas propuestas no son las dominantes, la calidad de buena parte del material es excelente. Reseñar este libro ha sido un placer interesante y estimulante, aunque a veces también frustrante, debido a que en ocasiones me hizo albergar esperanzas de que iría mas lejos en su alcance y cobertura de lo que fue. En suma, es un libro bien estructurado en el que cada capítulo tiene una introducción y un resumen final con los puntos principales.

This paper presents qualitative findings from a mixed methods study of four one-day-a-week therapeutic communities (TCs) in the north of England for people with personality disorder. Quantitative findings from the study are presented separately.

Quantitative findings are presented from a mixed methods study of four one-day-a-week therapeutic communities for people with personality disorder (qualitative findings from the same study are reported in a separate paper). The evaluation assessed both the clinical efficacy of the model and its acceptability to service users, service employees and those who refer clients to the services.

Policy on the family is enjoying a revival due to its place at the centre of the ‘communitarian’ agenda that is influencing policy discussions in the US and Britain (Etzioni, 1993). However, although politicians from all parties in Britain trumpet the importance of the family, most government effort appears to have been concentrated on reducing the costs of welfare payments to single mothers. Mental illness has long been a neglected area of health policy, and recent publicity has centred on a few public incidentswhere someone with mental illness has caused direct harm to themselves of others. Much less attention has been given tosuccessful treatment of the majority of mentally ill people. It is no surprise that comparatively little consideration has been given to policies for caring for families with a mentally ill member. This chapter borrows arguments from health economics to examine issues confronting health policy as it relates to mentalhealth problems in families. We start with a summary of the scale of the problem and the family effects of mental illness. From three perspectives - markets, publicly-administered systems and professional relationships - we then highlight difficulties facing family policy, and suggest how the resource environment should be shaped to better meet society’s and individual’s needs.