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Social Work

Policy Research

Journal articles are primary and constantly updated research literature for policy analysis because journal articles provide research based evidence to track the development and implement of a policy for social work practice.

  • Reference collection
  • Encyclopedias provide essential background information about a policy, but information is not updated because of the publications dates are older.

A Framework for Analyzing a Policy Issue

  1. What's the issue?
  2. Historical perspective
  3. What's going on here?
  4. What can be done?
  5. Concluding observations

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