Kiaras Gharabaghi is a Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care and Dean of the Faculty of Community Services at Ryerson University, specializing in child and youth care ethics, organizational change, residential care and treatment, and international practice. He has over 20 years of front-line experience in the child mental health, child welfare, and youth homelessness sectors.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Textboxes, Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Research in ContextChapter 1: Party Words and Pick-Up Lines: Situating Oneself in ResearchChapter 2: Fake Presidents, Fake Research, Fake Practice: The Politics of ResearchChapter 3: Stuff We Do without Knowing: Value-Driven PracticesChapter 4: The Wonder Years: Formulating Research QuestionsChapter 5: You're Never Really First: The Literature ReviewChapter 6: Your Truth, My Truth, Everybody's Lies: Research versus AdvocacyPart II: Research Designs, Methods and ToolsChapter 7: Celebrating Your Senses: Observation and EthnographyChapter 8: I Know Because You Know: Afrocentric and Indigenous Research MethodsChapter 9: Awesome Researchers Don't Always Look Like Researchers: Participatory Action ResearchChapter 10: May I Listen to You?: Recruitment and EthicsChapter 11: Relational Conversations: Interviewing and Focus GroupsChapter 12: I Bet You Can Count: Quantitative Research MethodsChapter 13: Romantic and Relational Variables: The Tools and Methods of Quantitative ResearchChapter 14: Survey Says…: Asking Questions in Surveys and InterviewsChapter 15: So Then They Said…: Data Analysis in Qualitative ResearchPart III: Research in PerspectiveChapter 16: Are We There Yet?: Limitations of Research FindingsChapter 17: Because I Learned Something: The Interface of Research and Practice in Child and Youth CareAppendix 1 Elements of an Ethics ProtocolAppendix 2 A Small Research Project, Start to FinishGlossary of TermsList of ReferencesIndex

Kiaras Gharabaghi is a Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care and Dean of the Faculty of Community Services at Ryerson University, specializing in child and youth care ethics, organizational change, residential care and treatment, and international practice. He has over 20 years of front-line experience in the child mental health, child welfare, and youth homelessness sectors.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Textboxes, Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Research in ContextChapter 1: Party Words and Pick-Up Lines: Situating Oneself in ResearchChapter 2: Fake Presidents, Fake Research, Fake Practice: The Politics of ResearchChapter 3: Stuff We Do without Knowing: Value-Driven PracticesChapter 4: The Wonder Years: Formulating Research QuestionsChapter 5: You're Never Really First: The Literature ReviewChapter 6: Your Truth, My Truth, Everybody's Lies: Research versus AdvocacyPart II: Research Designs, Methods and ToolsChapter 7: Celebrating Your Senses: Observation and EthnographyChapter 8: I Know Because You Know: Afrocentric and Indigenous Research MethodsChapter 9: Awesome Researchers Don't Always Look Like Researchers: Participatory Action ResearchChapter 10: May I Listen to You?: Recruitment and EthicsChapter 11: Relational Conversations: Interviewing and Focus GroupsChapter 12: I Bet You Can Count: Quantitative Research MethodsChapter 13: Romantic and Relational Variables: The Tools and Methods of Quantitative ResearchChapter 14: Survey Says…: Asking Questions in Surveys and InterviewsChapter 15: So Then They Said…: Data Analysis in Qualitative ResearchPart III: Research in PerspectiveChapter 16: Are We There Yet?: Limitations of Research FindingsChapter 17: Because I Learned Something: The Interface of Research and Practice in Child and Youth CareAppendix 1 Elements of an Ethics ProtocolAppendix 2 A Small Research Project, Start to FinishGlossary of TermsList of ReferencesIndex

Kiaras Gharabaghi is a Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care and Dean of the Faculty of Community Services at Ryerson University, specializing in child and youth care ethics, organizational change, residential care and treatment, and international practice. He has over 20 years of front-line experience in the child mental health, child welfare, and youth homelessness sectors.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Textboxes, Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Research in ContextChapter 1: Party Words and Pick-Up Lines: Situating Oneself in ResearchChapter 2: Fake Presidents, Fake Research, Fake Practice: The Politics of ResearchChapter 3: Stuff We Do without Knowing: Value-Driven PracticesChapter 4: The Wonder Years: Formulating Research QuestionsChapter 5: You're Never Really First: The Literature ReviewChapter 6: Your Truth, My Truth, Everybody's Lies: Research versus AdvocacyPart II: Research Designs, Methods and ToolsChapter 7: Celebrating Your Senses: Observation and EthnographyChapter 8: I Know Because You Know: Afrocentric and Indigenous Research MethodsChapter 9: Awesome Researchers Don't Always Look Like Researchers: Participatory Action ResearchChapter 10: May I Listen to You?: Recruitment and EthicsChapter 11: Relational Conversations: Interviewing and Focus GroupsChapter 12: I Bet You Can Count: Quantitative Research MethodsChapter 13: Romantic and Relational Variables: The Tools and Methods of Quantitative ResearchChapter 14: Survey Says…: Asking Questions in Surveys and InterviewsChapter 15: So Then They Said…: Data Analysis in Qualitative ResearchPart III: Research in PerspectiveChapter 16: Are We There Yet?: Limitations of Research FindingsChapter 17: Because I Learned Something: The Interface of Research and Practice in Child and Youth CareAppendix 1 Elements of an Ethics ProtocolAppendix 2 A Small Research Project, Start to FinishGlossary of TermsList of ReferencesIndex