The Center for the Study of Social Work Practice: A Profile

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The Center for the Study of Social Work Practice is a joint endeavor of a major school of social work and a major social agency. Structured around an administrative core and three major research streams, it offers one possible model for establishing the linkages between research and practice so essential to meaningful research on social work practice. This article describes the concept and origin of the center, advantages and limitations of its structure and funding arrangements, and its current programs of research and research dissemination. Despite inevitable difficulties, experience thus far suggests that it is both possible and productive to institutionalize practice-research partnerships on a structural, organizational basis, as well as between social work researchers and practitioners on an individual basis. Organized around a central theme, the development of practice knowledge, the center may thereby contribute to the development of indigenous social work theory as well.

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