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Methodological issues & strategies in clinical research /

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This book provides readings designed to improve understanding of methodology and to enhance research practices in clinical psychology. The intended audience is persons who are in training or are actively involved in research. The primary focus of the readings is clinical psychology, but the issues a...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Psychological Association
Other Authors: Kazdin, Alan E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©1992.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Clinical psychology > Research.
Psychology, Clinical > methods
Research Design
Clinical Psychology.
Psychiatry.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Psychologie clinique > Recherche.
Clinical psychology > Research
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Methodology: What It Is and Why It Is So Important / Alan E. Kazdin
  • Unified Psychology / Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko
  • Beginning the Research Process
  • Research Ideas
  • Getting Out of Our Conceptual Ruts: Strategies for Expanding Conceptual Frameworks / Allan W. Wicker
  • Toward Terminological, Conceptual, and Statistical Clarity in the Study of Mediators and Moderators: Examples From the Child-Clinical and Pediatric Psychology Literatures / Grayson N. Holmbeck
  • Foci of Research
  • In Defense of External Invalidity / Douglas G. Mook
  • When Small Effects Are Impressive / Deborah A. Prentice, Dale T. Miller
  • Methods: Principles and Practices
  • Sampling Participants and Conditions
  • Random Sampling, Randomization, and Equivalence of Contrasted Groups in Psychotherapy Outcome Research / Louis M. Hsu
  • Stimulus Sampling in Clinical Research: Representative Design Reviewed / Brendan A. Maher
  • Ethnicity and Underrepresented Groups
  • Science, Ethnicity, and Bias: Where Have We Gone Wrong? / Stanley Sue
  • Ethnic Representation in a Sample of the Literature of Applied Psychology / Leslie Case, Timothy B. Smith
  • Assessment
  • Developing Measures
  • Constructing Validity: Basic Issues in Objective Scale Development / Lee Anna Clark, David Watson
  • Reliability, Validity, and Utility
  • Clinical Applications of Analogue Behavioral Observation: Dimensions of Psychometric Evaluation / Stephen N. Haynes.