Feldman's appraisal of the current status of social work research, using as its touchstone the 1991 Austin Report, is a frank and fair appraisal of how the discipline has come short of fulfilling its aspirations to become a more science-based profession. In many ways, Feldman has stood in the center of research developments within our field for the past 40 years or longer. He offers informed and thoughtful analyses of what we have accomplished and what is left undone. He asserts that part of the problem is the sluggish growth in the number of research doctorates being produced in our field. Obviously, without the production of highly trained social work researchers, the scholarly and science-based contributions to our field are limited. In this response, I contend that the burgeoning growth of the number of practice doctoral graduates, Doctor of Social Works (DSWs), may provide significant resources to augment the science of social work. In reality, the older generation of DSW graduates made highly important contributions to the science of social work, and the new generation stands poised to replicate this phenomenon.

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DSW 来救援？对费尔德曼的回应


费尔德曼以 1991 年奥斯汀报告为试金石，对社会工作研究的现状进行了评估，坦率而公正地评估了该学科未能实现其成为更加科学化的职业的愿望。在过去 40 年或更长时间里，费尔德曼在许多方面一直处于我们领域研究发展的中心。他对我们已完成的工作和尚未完成的工作进行了明智而深思熟虑的分析。他断言，部分问题在于我们领域产生的研究型博士学位数量增长缓慢。显然，如果没有训练有素的社会工作研究人员的培养，对我们领域的学术和科学贡献是有限的。在这篇回应中，我认为实践博士毕业生、社会工作博士（DSW）数量的迅速增长可能会为增强社会工作科学提供重要资源。事实上，老一代 DSW 毕业生对社会工作科学做出了非常重要的贡献，新一代也准备复制这一现象。