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"Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research offers innovative research tools that are most effective for understanding social problems in general and change in complex person-environment systems at the community level. Methodological pluralism and mixed-methods research are the overa...

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Other Authors: Jason, Leonard, Glenwick, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2012]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Community psychology > Research > Methodology.
Community mental health services > Research > Methodology.
Community-based social services > Research > Methodology.
Public health > Research > Methodology.
Community Mental Health Services > methods.
Public Health > methods.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an overview of methodological innovations in community research / Leonard A. Jason, David S. Glenwick
  • Part I. Pluralism and mixed methods in community research
  • chapter 2. Philosophical foundations of mixed methods research: implications for research practice / Jacob Kraemer Tebes
  • chapter 3. Methodological pluralism: implications for consumers and producers of research / Chris Barker, Nancy Pistrang
  • chapter 4. Integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches: an example of mixed methods research / Rebecca Campbell ... [and others]
  • Part II. Methods involving grouping of data
  • chapter 5. Clustering and its applications in community research / Allison B. Dymnicki, David B. Henry
  • chapter 6. The person-oriented approach and community research / G. Anne Bogat ... [and others]
  • chapter 7. Meta-analysis in community-oriented research / Joseph A. Durlak, Molly Pachan
  • Part III. Methods involving change over time
  • chapter 8. Time-series analysis in community-oriented research / Bettina B. Hoeppner, Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell
  • chapter 9. Survival analysis in prevention and intervention programs / Christian M. Connell
  • Part IV. Methods involving contextual factors
  • chapter 10. Multilevel modeling: method and application for community-based research / Nathan R. Todd, Nicole E. Allen, Shabnam Javdani
  • chapter 11. Epidemiologic approaches to community-based research / Leonard A. Jason, Nicole Porter, Alfred Rademaker
  • chapter 12. Applying geographic information systems to community research / Cory M. Morton ... [and others]
  • chapter 13. Economic cost analysis for community-based interventions / Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Leonard A. Jason.