This workbook and the accompanying MicroCase databases function as an interactive tool that provides students with a platform for exploring current social welfare issues. The text, the first MicroCase book written for social workers by a social work researcher, addresses the social issues which practitioners, researchers, and clients find important. To complete the exercises in the book, students use the databases on the accompanying CD-ROM, which contain the same current data used by social scientists all over the world to do their research. These five data files allow students to compare states, countries, public attitudes, and the effect of time on some of the most important social welfare issues of our day.
Dr. Andrew Cherry has been working in the helping professions since he received his BS degree from Troy State University, Troy, Alabama in 1968. He received his Masters of Social Work from the University of Alabama in 1974 and worked as a psychiatric social worker at Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for 7 years. He received his doctorate from the Columbia University School of Social Work in 1986.
In addition to teaching research at the master and doctoral level and chairing dissertations at Barry University, Professor Cherry conducts research and evaluations in the areas of homelessness, addiction, social services to children and families, and the influence of social bonds on human behavior. Professor Cherry published another book with Brooks/Cole, A RESEARCH PRIMER FOR THE HELPING PROFESSIONS, in 2000.
"EXAMINING GLOBAL SOCIAL WELFARE ISSUES USING MICROCASE is an extremely creative effort that offers an effective strategy for compliance to the CSWE mandate for integrating research within the entire social work curriculum."
