Counselling Psychology

This book shows researchers how to use APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research (JARS-Qual), Mixed Methods Article Reporting Standards (MMARS), and Qualitative Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (QMARS). This is a useful guide for researchers, journal editors, reviewers, and students. It includes the critical elements of a qualitative study, including design choices, participant recruitment strategies, data analysis procedures, and the significance of the results.
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Practical guidance for understanding and implementing APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) and Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (MARS) for quantitative research. These standards provide the essential information researchers need to report, including detailed accounts of the methods they followed, data results and analysis, interpretations of their findings, and implications for future research.
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Designed to give readers a clear understanding of how experimental psychologists think and introduce them to variety of research methods they use in their attempts to understand behavior. Thoroughly revised to include all the important new developments in research methodologies, and incorporating engaging and relevant examples from recent studies, this book will provide the reader with a thorough grounding in Psychological research methods and practices.

Kazdin's text is a notable contrast to the quantitative methodology approach that pervades the biological and social sciences. The methodology in Single-Case Reasearch Designs focuses on a widely applicable methodology for evaluating interventions, such as treatment, or psychotherapy, usingapplied behavior anlaysis. However, this revision aims to encompass a broader range of research areas that utilize single-case designs. The text will convey the pertinence of this research methodology to disciplines ranging from psychology and medicine to business and industry.

Provides instruction, accuracy, built-in learning aids, and real-world examples that will help you understand statistical concepts. The authors discuss how having an understanding of statistical procedures will help you comprehend published findings.

A clear and direct introduction to statistics for the social, behavioral, and life sciences. This text presents statistics using a conceptual approach along with information on the relevance of the different tools in different contexts and summaries of current research examples.

This text introduces the essentials of the statistical technique. Emphasis is on developing an understanding of the underlying logic of statistics.

This book is a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons in this book can be applied to writing the background section for a thesis or an original research publication.