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Overview
With enlightening examples and illustrations drawn from counseling literature, RESEARCH DESIGN IN COUNSELING, 4th Edition facilitates a conceptual understanding of research design as well as the important role of science in counseling and counseling psychology today. In doing so, the text fully addresses the strengths and weaknesses of all of the major designs, and focuses on a broad array of methodological issues. In addition to introducing students to the existing scientific literature in counseling and counseling psychology, the authors address professional writing, ethics, and research training. Heppner, Wampold, Owen, Thompson, and Wang's evenhanded approach provides students with an understanding of the various types of research, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Writing more than just a how-to book, the authors present a compelling rationale for the necessity of conducting research, and persuasively promote the necessity for greater integration of science and practice to enhance the effectiveness of both science and practice in counseling and counseling psychology.
- This edition reflects the work of five well-established authors in counseling and counseling psychology. Heppner and Wampold continue to provide the primary vision for the textbook, but now in collaboration with three rising stars in the profession. The combination of their areas of expertise provides a deep and rich conceptual understanding of research design, with an emphasis on acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of all the designs.
- Chapters are now organized into four major categories to help students systematically approach the basic content areas needed to become an educated and skillful researcher: (a) Philosophical, Ethical, Training, and Professional Issues; (b) Getting Started: Establishing the Foundation for a Study; (c) Major Research Designs; and (d) Methodological Issues.
- Each chapter contains the most up-to-date information that students need for utilizing the different research designs, including concrete illustrations. Updated references and a broad array of diversity and cross-cultural examples provide students with relevant information about the counseling and counseling psychology literature.
- New learning aids include boxed inserts with questions and applications of the material as well as chapter-ending stimulus questions for additional reflection to enhance student comprehension and retention.
- Chapter 2 is devoted to graduate research training, and addresses the concerns and misconceptions about both science and research in counseling and counseling psychology. The authors highlight the current research on this topic, and discuss implications for students' development in acquiring research competencies. The chapter also includes stories from a diverse group of seasoned researchers who share critical aspects of their research journey.
- The updated Chapter 3, which covers ethical issues, is centered on the most recent APA and ACA ethical guidelines, and provides a great deal of information about what students must know about ethical issues throughout all stages of their research.
- This text's comprehensive coverage of research design includes both quantitative and qualitative research, a wide array of methodological issues, process and outcome research, single-subject and survey research, and program evaluation. The authors also provide guidance on the process of becoming a successful researcher and on learning to write scientifically.
- A strong emphasis on diversity issues and on conducting research within different cultural contexts reflects the increasing breadth of knowledge in the counseling profession as well as the increasing complexities required in designing effective research.
- Beginning graduate students receive an overview of a wide array of key historical and current studies conducted by many of the foremost researchers in the profession; students not only acquire knowledge of research design, but also become familiar with many of the top researchers in the field.
- Statistical methods, integrated throughout the text, center on the ways in which counselors can use statistical methods across different research designs.
- The chapter on program evaluation introduces students to employing research design in conducting program evaluation, for both formative and summative reports. This chapter is very applied, and based on the experience of authors in the field.
1. Science and Counseling.
2. Research Training.
3. Ethical Issues in Counseling Research.
4. Professional Writing.
Part II: GETTING STARTED: ESTABLISHING THE FOUNDATION FOR A STUDY.
5. Identifying and Operationalizing Research Topics.
6. Choosing Research Designs.
7. Validity Issues in Research Design.
8. Population Issues.
9. Conceptual and Methodological Issues Related to Multicultural Research.
10. Scale Construction.
Part III: MAJOR RESEARCH DESIGNS.
11. True Experimental Designs.
12. Quasi-Experimental and Time Series Designs.
13. Quantitative Descriptive Designs.
14. Analogue Research.
15. Single-Subject Designs.
16. Qualitative Designs.
17. Mixed Methods.
Part IV: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES.
18. Designing and Evaluating the Independent Variable.
19. Designing or Choosing/Selecting the Dependent Variable.
20. Outcome Research: Strategies and Methodological Issues.
21. Design Issues Related to Counseling Process Research.
22. Program Evaluation.
23. Investigator, Experimenter, and Participant Bias.
Appendix A: Ethical Standards of the American Counseling Association.
Appendix B: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.