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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1138070394
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1138070394
• Author: Casey A. Barrio Minton, A. Stephen Lenz

Practical Approaches to Applied Research and Program Evaluation for Helping Professionals is a comprehensive textbook that presents master’s-level counseling students with the skills and knowledge they need to successfully evaluate the effectiveness of mental health services and programs.

Each chapter, aligned with 2016 Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) standards, guides counseling students through study design and evaluation fundamentals that will help them understand existing research and develop studies to best assess their own applied research questions. Readers will learn the basics of research concepts as applied to evaluative tasks, the art of matching evaluative methods to questions, specific considerations for practice-based evaluative tasks, and practical statistical options matched to practice-based tasks.

Table contents:

I. Embarking on an Inquiry
1. Where Science Meets Practice

2. Methodological Concepts

3. Measurement & Statistical Concepts

4. Strategies for Program Development, Scientific Inquiry, and Program Evaluation

II. Using Research and Program Evaluation in Practice 

5. The Matter of Question-Design Fit

6. Surveying Groups of People

7. Understanding Lived Experiences

8. Predicting Relationships Between Variables

9. Evaluating Change Within an Individual

10. Measuring Change with a Single Group

11. Evaluating Differences Between Groups

12. Combining Findings Across Studies or Sites

III. Putting Evaluation Practice into Motion

 13. Writing Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes

14. Using Literature to Support Practice

15. Selecting Assessment Measures

16. Managing Data

17. Reporting to Stakeholders

18. Closing the Loop

19. Sharing with Other Professionals

20. Addressing Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Considerations