Methodological issues & strategies in clinical research / edited by Alan E. Kazdin.

Other author Kazdin, Alan E. editor.
Format Book
Edition4th edition.
PublicationWashington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2016]
Descriptionxviii, 703 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Subjects

Variant title Methodological issues and strategies in clinical research
Contents part I. Introduction : overview and background -- part II. Beginning the research process -- part III. Sampling and assigning participants to conditions -- part IV. Assessment -- part V. Data analysis, evaluation, and presentation -- part VI. Special topics : evaluation in clinical practice and research -- part VII. Multiple methodologies -- part VIII. Ethical issues and scientific integrity -- part IX. Reproducibility of findings : replication and improving research practices -- part X. Publication and communication of research -- part XI. Perspectives on methodology.
Contents Ch 1. Methodology : what it is and why it is so important -- Ch 2. Beginning the research process : key concepts that can guide a study -- Ch 3. Getting out of our conceptual ruts : strategies for expanding conceptual frameworks -- Ch 4. Translational research -- Ch 5. In defense of external invalidity -- Ch 6. When small effects are impressive -- Ch 7. Most people are not weird -- Ch 8. The neglected 95% : why American psychology needs to become less American -- Ch 9. Amazon's mechanical turk : a new source of inexpensive, yet high-quality, data? -- Ch 10. Random sampling, randomization, and equivalence of contrasted groups in psychotherapy outcome research -- Ch 11. Experimental and observational designs : an overview -- Ch 12. Constructing validity : basic issues in objective scale development -- Ch 13. Selecting measures for research investigations -- Ch 14. Measurement and assessment : an editorial view -- Ch 15. Methodological issues in assessment research with ethnic minorities -- Ch 16. On the origins of the .05 level of statistical significance -- Ch 17. Things I have learned -- Ch 18. A power primer -- Ch 19. Statistical significance testing and cumulative knowledge in psychology : implications for training of researchers -- Ch 20. An effect size primer : a guide for clinicians and researchers -- Ch 21. The proof of the pudding : an illustration of the relative strengths of null hypothesis, meta-analysis, and bayesian analysis -- Ch 22. Designing better graphs by including distributional information and integrating words, numbers, and images -- Ch 23. Collecting client feedback -- Ch 24. Revisiting and reenvisioning the outcome problem in psychotherapy : an argument to include individualized and qualitative measurement -- Ch 25. Beyond efficacy and effectiveness : a multifaceted approach to treatment evaluation -- Ch 26. Methodological challenges in treatment outcome research with ethnic minorities -- Ch 27. The epistemology of mathematical and statistical modeling : a quiet methodological revolution -- Ch 28. Qualitative research and its place in psychological science -- Ch 29. Single-case experimental research designs -- Ch 30. Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct -- Ch 31. Research ethics : how to treat people who participate in research -- Ch 32. Research ethics for mental health science involving ethnic minority children and youths -- Ch 33. False-positive psychology : undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant -- Ch 34. Why has the number of scientific retractions increased? -- Ch 35. Best practices for allocating appropriate credit and responsibility to authors of multi-authored articles -- Ch 36. Shall we really do it again? the powerful concept of replication is neglected in the social sciences -- Ch 37. The empirical march : making science better at self-correction -- Ch 38. Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology -- Ch 39. Reporting standards for research in psychology : why do we need them? What might they be? -- Ch 40. Publications and communication of research findings -- Writing a review article for Psychological Bulletin -- Ch 42. Methodology : perspectives and general lessons to guide research.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015017881
ISBN9781433820915 (hc)
ISBN9781433820922 (pbk.)
ISBN1433820919 (hc)
ISBN1433820927 (pbk.)

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