Main description:

Research Design in Clinical Psychology helps students to achieve a thorough understanding of the entire research process - developing the idea, selecting methods, analyzing the results, and preparing the written scientific report. Drawing examples from clinical research, health, and medicine, author Alan E. Kazdin offers detailed coverage of experimental design, assessment, data evaluation and interpretation, case-control and cohort designs, and qualitative research methods. In addition to new pedagogical tools that guide students through the text, the Fifth Edition offers expanded coverage of key topic areas, such as cultural issues, scientific integrity, and recent changes in the publication and communication of research.

Contents:

Preface; About the Author; 1. Introduction; 2. Internal and External Validity; 3. Construct and Data-Evaluation Validity; 4. Ideas that Begin the Research Process; 5. Experimental Research Using Group Designs; 6. Control and Comparison Groups; 7. Case-Control and Cohort Designs; 8. Single-Case Experimental Research Designs; 9. Qualitative Research Methods; 10. Selecting Measures for Research; 11. Assessment: Types of Measures and Their Use; 12. Special Topics of Assessment; 13. Null Hypothesis Significance Testing; 14. Presenting and Analyzing the Data; 15. Cautions, Negative Effects, and Replication; 16. Ethical Issues and Guidelines for Research; 17. Scientific Integrity; 18. Communication of Research Findings; 19. Methodology: Constantly Evolving along with Advances in Science; Glossary; References; End Notes; Name Index; Subject Index.