Irwin Epstein, Susan Blumenfield

• Foreword Introduction: Promoting and Maintaining a Reflective Professional Staff in a Hospital-Based Social Work Department Using Available Clinical Information in Practice-Based Research: Mining for Silver While Dreaming of Gold Screening for Psychosocial Risk in an Urban Prenatal Clinic Population: A Retrospective Practice-Based Research Study Psycho-Social Problems Faced by “Frequent Flyers” in a Pediatric Diabetes Unit Mining Treatment Termination Data in an Adolescent Mental Health Service: A Quantitative Study Social Work Practice with Pre- and Post-Liver Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Self Study Dialysis Patient Characteristics and Outcomes: The Complexity of Social Work Practice with the End Stage Renal Disease Population Comparing Social Work’s Role in Renal Dialysis in Israel and the United States: The Practice-Based Research Potential of Available Clinical Information Mining Clinical Information in the Utilization of Social Services: Practitioners Inform Themselves Creating Experimental Analogs with Available Clinical Information: Credible Alternatives to “Gold-Standard” Experiments? Index Reference Notes Included

Irwin Epstein, Susan Blumenfield

• Foreword Introduction: Promoting and Maintaining a Reflective Professional Staff in a Hospital-Based Social Work Department Using Available Clinical Information in Practice-Based Research: Mining for Silver While Dreaming of Gold Screening for Psychosocial Risk in an Urban Prenatal Clinic Population: A Retrospective Practice-Based Research Study Psycho-Social Problems Faced by “Frequent Flyers” in a Pediatric Diabetes Unit Mining Treatment Termination Data in an Adolescent Mental Health Service: A Quantitative Study Social Work Practice with Pre- and Post-Liver Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Self Study Dialysis Patient Characteristics and Outcomes: The Complexity of Social Work Practice with the End Stage Renal Disease Population Comparing Social Work’s Role in Renal Dialysis in Israel and the United States: The Practice-Based Research Potential of Available Clinical Information Mining Clinical Information in the Utilization of Social Services: Practitioners Inform Themselves Creating Experimental Analogs with Available Clinical Information: Credible Alternatives to “Gold-Standard” Experiments? Index Reference Notes Included

Irwin Epstein, Susan Blumenfield

• Foreword Introduction: Promoting and Maintaining a Reflective Professional Staff in a Hospital-Based Social Work Department Using Available Clinical Information in Practice-Based Research: Mining for Silver While Dreaming of Gold Screening for Psychosocial Risk in an Urban Prenatal Clinic Population: A Retrospective Practice-Based Research Study Psycho-Social Problems Faced by “Frequent Flyers” in a Pediatric Diabetes Unit Mining Treatment Termination Data in an Adolescent Mental Health Service: A Quantitative Study Social Work Practice with Pre- and Post-Liver Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Self Study Dialysis Patient Characteristics and Outcomes: The Complexity of Social Work Practice with the End Stage Renal Disease Population Comparing Social Work’s Role in Renal Dialysis in Israel and the United States: The Practice-Based Research Potential of Available Clinical Information Mining Clinical Information in the Utilization of Social Services: Practitioners Inform Themselves Creating Experimental Analogs with Available Clinical Information: Credible Alternatives to “Gold-Standard” Experiments? Index Reference Notes Included