Full Description
Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles, especially given today's emphasis on evidence-based practice. This book consists of updates of 33 previously published articles from the Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescence/ Psychiatry, as well as an introduction and a conclusion on how to analyze and evaluate research articles. The book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statis tical analysis. Short, independent, chapters that do not have to be read in order; A guide to understanding why a particular statistic was selected; An emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency; Numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material and Methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice. This book is intended for practitioners and students in psychology, education, counseling, mental and allied health, nursing, and medicine, and as a text for courses on understanding research methods and statistics. Exposure to research and statistics is assumed.
Contents
The Humanistic Psychologist Volume 33 Editor's lntroduction; Hea'ing Hatred; How Will I Proceed?-What Is My Method? Reflexive Embodied Empathy: A Phenomenology of Participant-Researcher Intersubjectivity; Finding and Correcting Flawed Research Literatures Rigorously Respecting the Person: The Artistic Science of Experiential Personal Constructivism; Humanistic Research in the Wake of Postmodemism.
