Research Design in Clinical Psychology

A thorough guide to research design from a world-renowned clinical and child psychologist.

Alan E. Kazdin (Author)

9781108995214, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 5 August 2021

582 pages
27.8 x 21.5 x 2.7 cm, 1.56 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychological testing & measurement [JMBT], Psychological methodology [JMB], Research methods: general [GPS]