Scientific Practice of Professional Psychology

'Well written, valuable, and provocative...The emphasis on nonpositivist scientific approaches, including qualitative methods, critical thinking and logic, and framework development is particularly valuable.' Choice, June 1998

• I: The History of Scientific Research Training and the Local Clinical Scientist.- 1: The Problem of Integrating Science and Practice.- 2: The Local Clinical Scientist.- II: Extrapolations to Local Science from Traditional Science and Scholarship.- 3: Issues in the Philosophy of Science.- 4: Issues in Research Design.- 5: Issues in Quantitative Analysis: Foundations.- 6: Linking Theory and Data in the Scientific Study of Constructs and Individual Measurements.- III: Extrapolations to Local Science from Nontraditional Science and Scholarship.- 7: Issues in Qualitative Analysis.- 8: Logic, Critical Thinking, and the Local Clinical Scientist.- 9: Frameworks for Reflective Practice.- 10: Conclusion.- References.