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Mousetraps, Developmental Research, and Social Work Education

As inquiry directed toward the development of interventional and other social technology for social work, developmental research involves those methods by which interventional innovations and other aspects of social technology are analyzed, designed, created, and evaluated. Interventional innovation in developmental research is a very different paradigm from the more familiar behavioral science model of research oriented toward knowledge building. The purposes and outcomes of inquiry and the phases, operations, methods, and sources of data of developmental research are highlighted by contrasting this new model of research with more conventional methods. The introduction of developmental research into social work increases the number of available research methods and promises to strengthen its technical capability to accomplish its objectives. Developmental research may be the single most appropriate model of research for social work; this and other implications for graduate education in social work are discussed.