Article Reviews – ExChange

At ExChange we know that busy practitioners do not have the time to find and read the latest research. Finding interesting and relevant articles, evaluating the quality of the research and making sense of the implications for practice are all time consuming activities – and most workers are busy dealing with the challenges of working with people.

To help you we are launching a new part of our website – regular Article Reviews. In Article Reviews academics from CASCADE will identify an important recent article, summarise its findings and provide some critical thinking about the research and its implications.

We hope that these summaries will be useful – some may answer important questions, others may challenge your thinking or offer new ways of thinking about an issue or problem.

We also hope that the Reviews will help you decide whether or not you want to read the article itself – we are going to pick Reports and articles that are freely accessible whenever possible and provide links.

We hope that our Reviews will provide interesting, expert introductions to important current research that will help you find out the latest evidence in adult and children’s social care. We look forward to hearing from you whether you have found it helpful and how we might improve the service.

Article Review: Strengths-based practice in social work with adults

Price A, Ahuja L, Bramwell C, Briscoe S, Shaw L, Nunns M et al. (2020) Research evidence on different strengths-based approaches within adult social work: a systematic review. Southampton: NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Topic Report. Review written by Professor Jonathan Scourfield What question does this study focus on? This study summarises existing published research… Read More

Article Reviews

In Article Reviews academics from CASCADE will identify an important recent article, summarise its findings and provide some critical thinking about the research and its implications.

Article review – Child protection social work in COVID-19: Home visits and digital intimacy

Social work is a public service, but social workers very often do their work in private (Bostock et al, 2018). In much of his most important research to date…

Article review: What the Public Think About Social Services, A Report from Scotland

In relation to social services, there is often expressed the view among social workers that, by and large, the public dislike them – or at least, they dislike the services they represent. But how accurate is this view?