Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings

Author:   George A. Morgan ,  Jeffrey A. Gliner ,  Robert J. Harmon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:  

9780805853315


Pages:   382
Publication Date:   10 August 2005
Format:   Hardback
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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 a series of 33 previously published articles from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent 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 statistical analysis. Understanding and Evaluating Research features: Short, independent, chapters that can be read in any order. A guide to selecting an appropriate statistic. An emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency. Numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material. Methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice. A chapter on determining levels of evidence. 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 research methods and statistics. Exposure to research and statistics at the master's level is assumed.

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Author:   George A. Morgan ,  Jeffrey A. Gliner ,  Robert J. Harmon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.732kg
ISBN:  

9780805853315


ISBN 10:   0805853316
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   10 August 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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...Useful for...masters level students in...psychology, counseling...social work, nursing...special education...medical students...and family physicians....Accrediting bodies for residencies are adding a requirement for critical appraisal of research-this book would be perfect for courses to meet that requirement. -Mina K. Dulcan, M.D. Northwestern University and Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago Practitioners are being held accountable for utilizing current research findings to enhance practice outcomes. This book can help them do that. -Maura MacPhee, RN, Ph.D. University of British Columbia, Canada


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