This concise, accessible, and engaging handbook offers a companion for social work students to acquire professional and competency-based writing skills.

Author: Susan E. Mason, Wendy Zeitlin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/28/2024
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780367768270

About the Author

Susan E. Mason, PhD, MSSW, is Professor of Social Work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University in New York City. The author of over 40 peer-reviewed articles and multiple books, Dr. Mason has published extensively in the fields of schizophrenia, cultural diversity, health and hospital practice, and social work education. She has been editor-in-chief of Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, and has also served on other editorial boards throughout her career. On the faculty at Yeshiva University for over 20 years, Dr. Mason teaches courses in social work research, evidence-based practice, and mental health. Prior to her appointment at Yeshiva, she was a clinical social worker and researcher at Long Island Jewish Medical Center for eight years.

Wendy Zeitlin, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy at Montclair State University, where she teaches writing-intensive courses in diversity, research methods, and practice-based research. Dr. Zeitlin has held academic appointments at Yeshiva University and Montclair State University. Her scholarly interests focus on public health social work with an emphasis on disabilities and access to services for historically marginalized populations. She has authored over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Zeitlin is the author of Basic Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Using R (Oxford, 2019), and the co-author of two other titles on research methods.