Ethical guidelines for designing and conducting evaluations of social work practice

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 348-360

  Holosko, Michael J ^a   Thyer, Bruce A ^b   Danner, J Elaine Howse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethical guidelines; Evaluation; Social work practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

CODES OF ETHICS; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949388239     PISSN: 15433714     EISSN: 15433722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15433710903126778     Document Type: Article

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