SPSS for Social Workers: An Introductory Workbook

Highlights of the NEW! First Edition:

• References SPSS 12.0 throughout the text, but can be also used with other versions.
• Uses data that has been extracted from actual social work research projects, which is also provided on an accompanying CD-ROM.
• Teaches SPSS and statistical skills using research problems drawn from typical areas of social work practice or policy, including children of divorcing couples; children drifting in foster care; poverty and income; parenting practices and adolescent adjustment; history of sexual abuse; and youth suicide.
• Covers statistical material on topics including, but not limited to: normal distributions, cross-tabulations and chi-square analysis, correlations, introductory regression, and tests involving group comparisons.
• Uses a tabular, instructional format throughout, with one column for instructions and another for explanatory notes/comments, allowing students to readily track their progress and check each step once undertaken. The instructions are liberally supported with screenshots, charts, and sample output.

Student SPSS 12.0 Software
Specially priced Student SPSS Software can now be packaged with this text! Based on the professional version of SPSS, Students SPSS comes on a CD-ROM for Windows, has an easy-to-use interface, comprehensive online help, and a full range of features. See your Publisher’s Representative for ordering details.

Research Navigator Guide for the Helping Professions
Research Navigator helps students quickly and efficiently make the most of their research time. Complete with extensive help on the research process and three exclusive databases of credible and reliable source material including the EBSCO Academic Journal and Abstract Database, New York Times Search by Subject Archive, and “Best of the Web” Link Library, Research Navigator Guide for the Helping Professions is available FREE when packaged with this text: Use package ISBN: 0-205-46807-1.

This well-illustrated text is specifically designed and class-tested for use with social work students who are taking their first course in statistics and SPSS.

Through a step-by-step, engaging instruction of SPSS, this text gives students the skills needed for foundational statistical analysis, based on actual data from social work research projects. With relevant examples of practice and policy throughout the text, instruction focuses on the creation, organization, manipulation and transformation of data sets. The text covers statistical material on topics including, but not limited to: normal distributions, cross-tabulations and chi-square analysis, correlations, introductory regression, and tests involving group comparisons. A tabular, instructional format is used throughout, with one column for instructions and another for explanatory notes/comments, allowing students to readily track their progress and check each step once undertaken. The instructions are liberally supported with screen shots, charts and sample output (Chs. 2-8). References are made to SPSS 12.0 throughout the text, but it also can be used with earlier versions.

Although not designed as a statistics text, it includes sufficient statistical material to assist students without prematurely burdening them with information too far beyond the scope of an introductory course. The text aims to engender familiarity and confidence in the tasks of quantitative analysis.