ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that social worker perform a literature search using both methods. Extensive, in-depth literature reviews require time and investment. An annotated bibliography is a very useful method to catalogue social worker's literature search. Journals tend to be topic specific and social worker will find that journals follow a particular research theme or theoretical point of view or they publish findings that will attract readership. Social workers may detect a tendency in some journals where articles seem to be written in a circumscribed fashion, appearing that the authors are writing to each other in the journal. Social worker must remember that newspapers are owned by individuals and/or corporations that have a particular viewpoint that can slant the interpretation of information toward the understanding of the fact or to match the political expectations of their clientele. Social worker might start with a literature search concerning refugees and specifically refugee mental health with Google or Google Scholar.
