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The key aims of this text are to illustrate the use of various types of mental health treatments and to provide in-depth examples of common psychological disorders supported by case studies. The 34 journal articles in this book— authored by practicing psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and counselors— describe the treatment of individual clients. In most cases, the authors discuss a client's psychological problem , the treatment used w ith the client, and the outcome. This book is designed for use in courses in clinical, counseling, and abnormal psychology, each article is followed by (1) a list of psychological term s for classroom discussion and (2) questions that call for students' opinions on various aspects of die case.

A useful handbook, this text presents guidelines frequently followed by writers of reports of empirical research designed for publication in scientific business journals. The guidelines describe the types of information that should be included, how this information should be expressed, and where various types of information should be placed within a report. Excerpts from journal articles are used to illustrate most of the guidelines. At the end of each chapter, there are questions for classroom discussion.

First published in 1996. This book is designed to help students acquire basic skills needed to comprehend social and behavioural science research reports. These skills are needed to understand research results that we confront in our everyday lives in magazines, newspapers, on television, and elsewhere. It includes a guide and a workbook.

• In Real Data, students predict the answers to interesting questions. Then they analyze data supplied by leading researchers to see if there is empirical support for their predictions.• Students get practice in computing all the major statistics usually covered in an introductory statistics course.• Because each of the 35 exercises in Part A deals with only a limited number of statistics, the workbook is easily coordinated with all introductory statistics textbooks.• Part A emphasizes small data sets that are useful whether students are using calculators or computers. The exercises in this part are highly structured so students know exactly what is required of them.• Part B provides larger data sets for comprehensive analysis by computer users. Loosely structured, the data sets allow you to specify which statistics should be computed.• Sample topics: Kissing and Sexual Harassment; Basic Trust of Rape Survivors; Gambling and Stealing; Pregnancy Risk Among Adolescents Who Had Been Sexually Abused; Boys Interacting with Their Fathers; Racial Differences in Seeking Medical Assistance; Instructors’ Clothing and Student Evaluations; Students’ Attitudes Toward Math; and Physician-Assisted Suicide.• Using real data for analysis makes the traditional statistics class come alive.

• Do your students need to organize and summarize data for term projects? Will they need to perform these tasks on the job? This book gives them thorough preparation.• In twelve short chapters, your students will learn the purposes of descriptive statistics, their calculation, and proper interpretation.• Actual data on the emotional health of foster-care adolescents are used throughout the book to illustrate various ways of deriving meaning from the data with descriptive statistics. Other interesting examples are also included.• Computational procedures are illustrated with step-by-step, easy-to-follow examples.• End-of-chapter exercises provide ample practice for students to master both computations and statistical concepts.• Eliminates the need for students to buy a traditional statistics book that emphasizes inferential statistics.• Thoroughly field-tested for student comprehension.• This book will please you and your students with its clarity of presentation.• Outstanding supplement for students who need to describe term project data.

•We’ve added a comprehensive basic math review to this edition. It will get your students off to a good start in statistics. • In the worksheets, students obtain answers to humorous riddles if their work is correct. If the answer to a riddle does not make sense, they know to check their work. • Easy to coordinate with all major statistics textbooks because each exercise covers only a limited number of statistics. • All major topics are included—from calculating percentages to conducting a one-way ANOVA. • Over 40 humorously illustrated, interactive guides give your students solid advice on study skills covering everything from how to get the most out of a statistics textbook to how to work with a tutor. • The 64-page instructor’s answer key shows all the steps in the solutions for the computational problems. This key makes it easy for you to start using the workbook right away. • This book has been a perennial best-seller. Minor adjustments throughout bring you an improved Second Edition for 1999.

• Each of the 53 cases presents a practical problem faced by a researcher and the solution he or she selected. •The questions encourage students to evaluate the researcher’s solution and consider alternatives. •All cases are drawn from the published literature. Your students will evaluate real problems faced by practicing researchers. •All major topics in research methods are covered. Here are samples from the seven major sections of the book: •Sampling: Sampling Hispanic Adults by Telephone•Measurement: Social Desirability•Operational Definitions: Defining “Physical Abuse” of Children•Procedures: Controlling the Distribution of a Questionnaire•Experimental and Causal-Comparative Design: Forming Comparison•Groups in Classroom Research on Reading•Ethical Considerations: Prescreening Adolescents for Stress•Interpretation of Results: Health Risk Behaviors of Adolescents•The extensive instructor’s guide provides discussion points as well as samples of students’ answers obtained in the field tests. •This supplementary book makes dry textbook principles come alive! Students learn that research is a dynamic process—that for many problems there are competing solutions, each with its own advantages and drawbacks. •The 35 short cases are ideal for classroom discussions. The 18 longer ones make great homework assignments.

• Your students will get valuable practice in interpreting actual excerpts from published test manuals.• Each of the 39 exercises begins with a guideline that helps students review the measurement concepts they will need in order to complete the exercise.• Background notes on each exercise describe the purpose of the test from which the excerpt was drawn.• Students answer questions that require them to locate and interpret important points in the excerpt.• The excerpts are largely unabridged so that students practice interpreting material as it is actually presented by test makers.• The skills they learn with this book can be easily transferred to other test manuals they may be using in the future.• Students have an ethical responsibility to be thoroughly familiar with the technical characteristics of the tests they will use. This book prepares them for this responsibility.• All major topics are covered, including: · validity· reliability· standard error of measurement· norm group composition· derived scores · scales to detect faking · item analysis· cultural bias• The excerpts are drawn from tests such as:· Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children· Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test· 16PF· Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale· MMPI· Beck Depression Inventory· Stanford Achievement Test Series· KeyMath· and many others!

This collection of research articles illustrates a wide variety of qualitative methods for gathering and interpreting data.

• Seventy professors share their tips, techniques, and strategies for overcoming roadblocks to the completion of a thesis or dissertation.• Many of the professors share their personal experiences in completing their dissertations. With hindsight, they offer advice based on these experiences. The personal nature of these essays makes fascinating reading.• The professors’ contributions cover a wide range of topics including· selecting a topic, · selecting a chair and a committee,· working with the chair and committee, · selecting literature to review, · writing a literature review, · time management,· overcoming writer’s block, · overcoming anxiety, · putting the thesis/dissertation into proper perspective,· establishing support groups,· understanding the role of the dissertation in professional development,· and many others!• This “in-their-own-words” book allows students to select the advice that is best suited to their situations and work styles.• Running sidebars throughout the book help students locate information on the matters with which they need help.• Ideal for independent reading by your students or use each of the contributions as a discussion topic in a thesis/dissertation preparation course.

First Published in 2017. As an applied branch of mathematics, statistical analysis is straightforward and non- controversial. Yet, there are dangers in using statistics that derive from two sources: Statistical Tricks: These occur when researchers deliberately attempt to mislead their readers. Also Statistical Traps: A researcher falls into a statistical trap when he or she naively or carelessly misapplies statistical methods or employs unsound research methods to generate statistical data. While a trap is not intentional, it can produce highly misleading results. However, this book will teach you what types of important questions researchers should address in their reports, and you will learn to take their results with a large grain of salt if they are not addressed.

• This edition of our popular reader is entirely updated with timely articles that deal with broad issues in education and psychology. (For a research reader with emphasis on classroom issues, see A Cross Section of Educational Research.) • This collection shows students the many inherent weaknesses of empirical methods as well as models of excellence. Unlike research readers that contain made-up articles, this one has both face validity and content validity. Your students will appreciate reading real articles with real results. • The 34 research articles illustrate: •qualitative research•combined qualitative/quantitative research•content/documentary analysis•correlational research•test validity and reliability research•causal-comparative research•true experimental research•quasi-experimental research•pre-experimental research•program evaluation•meta-analysis• The lines are numbered sequentially, making it easy to refer to specific parts of each article during classroom discussions. • This single source of research articles is convenient for you and your students. • Easy to coordinate with any research methods text, this reader is an ideal way to make research methods come alive! Field-tested for student interest and comprehension. • All major methods of research are illustrated with real research articles drawn from a wide variety of journals. (See Table of Contents.) • Your students will become familiar with a wide variety of writing and organizational styles that real researchers use. Despite their variety, all articles in this book are highly comprehensible. • Factual Questions at the end of each article encourage students to read for mythological points they might otherwise overlook. • Questions for Discussion encourage students to address broad issues of research design. An instructor’s answer key will be shipped with your examination copy. • The interesting research topics will make your students look forward to doing their research reading homework.

First Published in 2017. In this book Dr. Laurie Graham Dodge shares some important fundamnetals of introductory statistics. At its core, statistics is a branch of mathematics. It's a collection of tools that help us organize and make sense of information. Unfortunately, most tools are interesting only if we have an interesting use for them. One of the authors’ major goals in writing this book is to provide you with interesting examples that illustrate many of the important uses of statistics.

• Provides detailed information on· the functions of assessment;· how to construct, administer, and interpret the results of teacher-developed assessment techniques; and· how to interpret the results of externally developed instruments such as standardized tests.• Both traditional and newer, alternative assessment techniques are covered.• Advantages and disadvantages of each assessment technique are discussed.• A companion website helps both instructors and students obtain additional information on topics of special interest to them.• Numerous examples of the principles and procedures make it easy for students to understand the material.• The highly practical nature of this book stems from the focus on how assessment intertwines with other everyday activities in classrooms.• Measurement theory and computational procedures that are unlikely to be used by classroom teachers are de-emphasized, producing a textbook that provides comprehensive coverage without being unnecessarily technical.

First Published in 2006. This book is designed for students who are learning how to evaluate published psychological research. The 41 research articles in this collection provide the stimulus material for such a course.

• The detailed step-by-step directions make it ideal for use by students who are conducting their first research project. • The large number of examples throughout the text makes the steps in conducting a survey clear and easy to follow. • Covers only methods that are realistic for use by students who are conducting a survey within a single semester. • For data analysis, the emphasis is on the use of basic statistics, with the computation of a small number of descriptive statistics illustrated. Easy-to-calculate margins of error are also illustrated. • The firsthand experience of conducting a survey as a term project helps students understand both the contributions and limitations of survey research methods.• Successfully conducting a term-project survey can give students the confidence to work on more elaborate studies in the future, such as research for a master’s degree project.

• Designed for use by novice computer users, this text begins with the basics, such as starting SPSS, defining variables, and entering and saving data.• All major statistical techniques covered in beginning statistics classes are included:· descriptive statistics· graphing data· prediction and association· parametric inferential statistics· nonparametric inferential statistics· statistics for test construction• Each section starts with a brief description of the statistic that is covered and important underlying assumptions, which help students select appropriate statistics.• Each section describes how to interpret results and express them in a research report after the data are analyzed. For example, students are shown how to phrase the results of a significant and an insignificant t test.• More than 200 screenshots (including sample output) throughout the book show students exactly what to expect as they follow along using SPSS.• A glossary of statistical terms is included, which makes a handy reference for students who need to review the meanings of basic statistical terms.• Practice exercises throughout the book give students stimulus material to use as they practice to achieve mastery of the program.• Thoroughly field-tested; your students are certain to appreciate this book.

• This collection of research articles emphasizes topics of interest to classroom teachers. • The 38 research articles illustrate: •survey research•quantitative content analysis•correlational research•true experimental research•quasi-experimental research•pre-experimental research•single-subject research/behavior analysis•causal-comparative research•program evaluation•qualitative research•combined qualitative/quantitative research•meta-analysis• The lines in each article are numbered sequentially, making it easy to refer to specific parts of the article during classroom discussions. • The availability of a single source of research articles is convenient and helps you avoid copyright infringement problems. • Factual Questions at the end of each article allow students to check their comprehension. • Questions for discussion stimulate classroom discussions of research methods. • After answering the questions, students rate the quality of each article using 13 basic criteria. More detailed criteria in the Appendix may also be applied. • Ideal for courses in which the primary goal is to learn how to evaluate research. • Twenty-one different journals are represented in the 38 articles in this collection. Students see the diversity of educational research since the journals vary in their standards for publication. • New to this edition: Thirteen new articles keep this popular research reader up-to-date.

• Prepares students to conduct their first empirical research study, with quantitative and qualitative methods covered in detail. Common features as well as differences between the two research approaches are explored.• While theoretical material is included, the emphasis is on providing practical, easy-to-follow advice on how to conduct a first research project. • Unlike most texts with hypothetical examples, this text—with real examples written by a variety of published researchers—makes research methods come alive. Students see how research methods are used to explore important, contemporary problems.• Factual Questions at the end of each chapter help students review key concepts covered in the chapters. • Questions for Discussion encourage students to consider specific techniques and strategies that they might use while conducting their research.

• Students get valuable practice in interpreting statistical reporting as it actually appears in journals. In each of the 62 exercises, your students will read a brief excerpt of statistical reporting from a published research article.• Each exercise begins with guidelines for interpreting the statistics in the excerpt.• The questions on the excerpts promote learning by requiring students to· interpret information in tables and figures,· perform simple calculations to further their interpretations,· critique data-reporting techniques, and · evaluate procedures used to collect data.• Each exercise covers a limited number of statistics, making it easy for you to coordinate the exercises with lectures and a main textbook.• The questions in each exercise are divided into two parts: (1) Factual Questions and (2) Questions for Discussion. The factual questions require careful reading for details, while the discussion questions show students that interpreting statistics is more than a mathematical exercise. These questions require them to apply good judgment as well as statistical reasoning in arriving at appropriate interpretations. • Thirteen new exercises interspersed throughout show how to interpret a greater array of statistical reporting.