| Machine generated contents note: The Research Process |
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| Philosophical Issues |
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| What is Research? |
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| What is Science? |
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| Social and Political Issues |
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| Professional Issues |
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| The Intuitive Practitioner |
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| The Scientist-Practitioner |
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| The Applied Scientist |
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| The Local Clinical Scientist |
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| The Evidence-Based Practitioner |
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| The Clinical Scientist |
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| The Practice-Based Evidence Model |
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| Comparison of Models |
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| Implications for Clinical Training |
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| Personal Issues |
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| Why Do Clinical Psychologists Do Research? |
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| Why Don't Clinical Psychologists Do Research? |
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| Weighing up the Pros and Cons of Doing Research |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| Further Reading |
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| Questions for Reflection |
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| Formulating the Research Questions |
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| Choosing the Topic |
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| Developing the Questions |
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| Hypothesis-testing versus Exploratory Research Questions |
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| Some Types of Research Question |
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| Literature Review |
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| The Proposal |
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| Funding |
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| The Politics of Research in Applied Settings |
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| Access |
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| Responding to Doubts |
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| Authorship |
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| The Process of Measurement |
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| Domains of Variables |
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| Measuring Psychological Constructs |
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| Measurement Sources and Approaches |
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| Foundations of Quantitative Methods |
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| Positivism |
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| Psychometric Theory |
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| Definitions |
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| Reliability |
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| Reliability Statistics |
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| Validity |
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| Generalizability Theory |
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| Item Response Theory |
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| Utility |
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| Standards for Reliability and Validity |
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| Chapter Summary and Conclusions |
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| Historical Background |
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| Philosophical Background |
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| Phenomenology |
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| Social Constructionism |
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| Families of Qualitative Approaches |
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| Thematic Analysis Approaches |
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| Narrative Approaches |
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| Language-Based Approaches |
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| Ethnographic Approaches |
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| Ways of Evaluating Qualitative Studies |
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| Conclusion: Choosing and Combining Methods |
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| Mode of Administration |
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| Open-ended and Closed-ended Questions |
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| Qualitative Self-report Methods |
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| Types of Qualitative Interview |
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| Interview Schedule |
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| Interviewing Style |
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| Quantitative Self-report Methods |
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| Questionnaire Design |
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| Qualitative Observation |
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| Participant Observation |
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| Text-based Research |
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| Quantitative Observation |
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| Background |
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| Procedures for Conducting Observations |
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| Reliability and Validity Issues |
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| Nonexperimental Designs |
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| Descriptive Designs |
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| Correlational Designs |
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| Experimental Designs |
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| Cook and Campbell's Validity Analysis |
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| Nonrandomized Designs |
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| Randomized Designs |
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| Conclusion: Choosing a Research Design |
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| Single-case Experimental Designs |
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| Procedure |
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| AB Design |
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| Reversal (or ABAB) Design |
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| Multiple-baseline Design |
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| Changing-Criterion Design |
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| Data Analysis |
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| Generalization |
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| Naturalistic Case-study Designs |
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| Narrative Case Studies |
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| Systematic Case Studies |
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| Time-Series Designs |
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| Conclusion |
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| Sampling |
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| The Target Population |
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| Bias and Representativeness |
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| Sample Size |
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| Alternative Approaches to Sampling and Generalizability |
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| Summary and Conclusion |
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| Ethical Issues |
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| Informed Consent |
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| Harms and Benefits |
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| Privacy and Confidentiality |
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| Ethics Self-study Exercise |
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| Ethics Committees |
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| What is Evaluation? |
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| The Sociopolitical Context |
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| Preparation for Evaluating a Service |
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| Aims and Objectives |
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| The Impact Model |
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| Estimating the Extent of the Target Problem in the Target Population |
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| Needs Assessment |
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| Delivery System Design |
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| Monitoring the Process of Service Delivery |
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| Coverage and Bias |
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| Service Implementation |
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| Outcome Evaluation |
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| Client Satisfaction Surveys |
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| Patient focused Research and Outcomes Management |
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| Cost-effectiveness |
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| Qualitative Data Analysis |
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| Within-case and Cross-case Analysis |
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| Preliminaries to Qualitative Data Analysis |
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| Processes in Qualitative Data Analysis |
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| Good Practice in Qualitative Analysis |
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| Quantitative Data Analysis |
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| Data Entry |
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| Data Checking |
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| Data Reduction |
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| Data Exploration |
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| Statistical Significance Testing for Answering the Research Questions |
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| Analyzing the Strength and Significance of Quantitative Effects |
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| Interpretation |
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| Contributions to Knowledge: Understanding the Meaning of the Findings |
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| Methodological Issues: Strengths and Limitations of the Study |
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| Scientific and Practical Implications |
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| Dissemination |
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| Writing up |
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| Publication |
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| Authorship Issues |
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| Utilization |
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| The End |
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| Questions For Reflection |
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| Methodological Pluralism |
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| Appraising Research |
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| Combining Research with Practice |
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| Some Images of Research |
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| Machine generated contents note: The Research Process |
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| Philosophical Issues |
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| What is Research? |
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| What is Science? |
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| Social and Political Issues |
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| Professional Issues |
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