ABSTRACT
For some time, researchers in human service areas such as social work, mental health and public health have sought approaches to research which yield results that can be put to practical use by practitioners, administrators, and policymakers. They have addressed such questions as how to search out and make appropriate use of available research findings which have potential application, how research methodology may be used to design and develop human service technology, and, more generally, how research for practical use in human service differs from conventional behavioral and social science research.
