Research Design In Counseling

The discipline of counseling is enriched by research by practitioners, yet as students many learned research techniques and applications cobbled together from other disciplines. In this edition the authors continue to give students methods and examples from their own discipline while updating their material with the very research their text helped engender. They cover basic philosophical, ethical and training issues, such as the role of science, identifying and using topics, choosing research designs and seeking validity in the choice. They then delineate the major research designs, comparing approaches and describing quantitative and qualitative designs, describe methods such as designing and evaluating the independent and dependent variables, dealing with population issues, conducting analogue and outcome research, and considering scale construction, and creating a professional-quality finished product. Content upgrades for this edition make this a professional reference as well as a classroom text. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)