The research methods described and illustrated in this book are those particularly useful to the field of clinical and health psychology and cover both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
For both undergraduate and postgraduate students, the book will be essential in making them aware of the full range of techniques available to them, helping them to design scientifically rigorous experiments.
Cohen's kappa (κ) is used to accomplish this (Cohen, 1960). The formula is: p pp o cc – /–1 where p o is the proportion of agreement observed (i.e., the total of the numbers in the agreement cells of the table divided by the grand ...
Jay C. Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP, is Director of the Counseling Psychology program at Pacific University, Portland, Oregon. ... he joined Pacific's School of Professional Psychology teaching statistics, research methods, program evaluation, ...
This book integrates philosophy of science, data acquisition methods, and statistical modeling techniques to present readers with a forward-thinking perspective on clinical science.
Designed to serve as a primary reference source for researchers and students interested in expanding their research to consider a biopsychosocial approach, this book provides a thorough, state-of-the-art, and user-friendly coverage of basic ...
This indispensable book provides diverse perspectives on the role of research in clinical psychology and a comprehensive collection of theoretical and methodological models that spans the spectrum of clinical research....
"This book extends the ongoing discussion on critical approaches within clinical and health psychology.
This book will help OHP scholars improve their own research by translating recent innovations in methodology into sets of concrete recommendations that will help scholars improve their own research as well as their training of future ...
The Oxford Handbook of Research Strategies for Clinical Psychology has recruited some of the field's foremost experts to explicate the essential research strategies currently used across the modern clinical psychology landscape that ...
And in many profound ways, our respective views of these shared objects of concern differ greatly. Our experience of time, to take one example, means completely different things to each of us, although it exists as a real and ...