SOWK 3340: Social Work Research

Reference Material in the form of subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks typically provide background essays, definitions, broad overviews of various topics, or other pertinent facts. eReference titles are available though Sage eReference and Credo Reference.

Other titles social work students may find helpful include:

Encyclopedia of Social Work
Oxford Bibliographies: Social Work

Topics: 

Homelessness ; Healthcare/Medical Social Work ; Child Welfare ; Mental Health ; Foster Care ; Substance Abuse ; Family Law ; healthcare and latino immigrants ; homelessness ; direct social work practice ; racial justice

Tying your topic to "policy/law/legislation"? 

Tying your topic to "treatment/intervention/therapy/rehabilitation"?

Assignment: 20 page proposal with at least 5 peer-reviewed articles cited. If you are citing numbers, make sure the source was published no more than 10 years ago.

Comparing Causation for High School Dropouts in Higher and Lower Income Schools Within a School District, comparing the three most prominent reasons for dropout in each community.

• Many individuals are leaving school to help provide for their families, mental health reasons, or financial insecurity. 
• narrowed our scope to low-income and high-income areas. We are focusing on school districts

Developmental outcomes of adolescent women who are survivors of human trafficking in the United States.

• psychological effects or even career success that human trafficking survivors experience after being trafficked.
• concept of human trafficking in adolescent women is measurable by looking at the grades or graduation rates of the survivors of human trafficking in the unites states. We also can also look at poverty rates which will help us determine the career success and the women’s fulfillment in life.

Comparison between immigrants from Spain and Mexico and their experiences receiving healthcare in the Central Texas area.

• specifically researching immigrants from Spain and Mexico.

Effectiveness of anti-depressants on youth.

• the use of prescribed drugs on youths' mental health which directly affects their behavior as they develop cognitively. 
• ethical issue evident is competency, because enough counseling has been done to prescribe the child the medication. 

Factors that led to youth learning delays within the educational setting.

• focusing on the grade population within a specific time frame when covid was in effect. We believe that the grade population that we are focusing on can provide more relevant findings since they would have been the children who experienced covid-19 in full effect.
• Focusing on a specific grade population can help us to learn more about learning delays with these children. 
• can be measured by reading tests, writing tests, math tests, and enrollment in gifted and talented. 

Recidivism as a problem in our society

• and costs taxpayers a lot of money. 
• consider the core values of service and dignity and worth of a person 
• cyclic issue that must also be regarded, and prison overcrowding.
• human relationships
• damages families and communities

Evaluate the training of Border Patrol agents who received the new program versus the Border Patrol agents who just have the basic training to see if the number of 80% who get through official patrol points can be decreased.

Past topics:

Analyzing the psychosocial effects of the death penalty process on women 

• death row or capital punishment or death row
• women or females
• psychosocial

The Effects of Substance Abuse and Violence on Women's Mental Health

• substance abuse or substance use or drug abuse or drug addiction or drug use 
• women or females
• mental health or well being or emotional health or psychological health

Physical harm of youth who overindulge in social media use and trends

• youth or adolescents or young people or teen or young adults or children
• social media or facebook or twitter or instagram or snapchat or social networking or tiktok or youtube
• physical harm or exploitation

Domestic violence/ Sexual violence in female college students

• domestic violence or domestic abuse or intimate partner violence or sexual violence or sexual trauma
• women or females
• college students or university students / higher education or college or university