eBook Research in Rehabilitation Counseling: A Guide to Design, Methodology, and Utilization, 2nd Ed. ePub

This second edition represents the thorough revision necessary to accurately reflect the variation and wealth of research methodologies used in contemporary rehabilitation counseling research. As with the previous edition, this new second edition is divided into ten chapters. Chapter 1 establishes the theoretical underpinnings of social scientific inquiry, provides a foundation in the philosophical, epistemological, and methodological considerations related to the design and execution of rehabilitation research, and discusses the broad purposes of research. Chapter 2 addresses the issues that are preparatory to designing and evaluating this research, the sources of research ideas, and translating these ideas into research hypothesis, identifying variables, and sampling issues. Chapter 3 discusses key measurement and statistical concepts used in the quantitative research tradition, including reliability and validity of measurements instruments, the purposes of descriptive and inferential statistics in analyzing numeric data, and provides an expanded section on methods of statistical analysis. Chapters 4 and 5 reviews ethical issues and guidelines for the design, implementation, and reporting of rehabilitation research, drawing valid inferences from results, and generalizing findings from the research sample to the target population. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 review the wide range of different quantitative, qualitative, and integrative approaches to doing rehabilitation research, and provides examples from the recent rehabilitation literature. Other topics include the intervention/stimulus relationship, descriptive studies in the quantitative paradigm, and qualitative methods of rehabilitation research. Chapter 9 presents a published research article section by section, annotates the components and composition of a research report, and provides a protocol that students and practitioners can use to evaluate the technical soundness and scientific merits of published research articles. The concluding chapter addresses future trends in rehabilitation counseling research in relation to fruitful topic areas and methodologies as they apply to counselors, administrators, policymakers, educators, researchers, people with disabilities, and consumer advocates. This book provides the 'basics' that one would need to begin conducting a research investigation.

Asyasya

I have taken Research and Statistics several times in several different types of programs. This textbook is the easiest to read and understand, but I don't think it is as detailed as some others. If you want a good basic understanding of research, especially from a Rehabilitation Counseling perspective, this is a good text.

Arryar

The book is poorly organized. It has no spacing between different subsections, only all caps, making scanning very hard. The index does not include all the subjects; I spend most of my time flipping through it trying to find information. Wish there was a more readable book. Also, pg 77 describes range as the highest minus the lowest plus (one instead of the more common highest minus lowest). Apparently the former is only used in rare situation and this caused a lot of confusion in the class.

Qumenalu

This is a very informative topic for rehabilitation counselors. In order to look into research that has been conducted in the social science area for rehabilitation counseling, many of the examples are noteworthy in this field. This second edition was a good evaluation of what is needed to understand the experiments conducted through research.

Eigonn

This text was required for a course I am taking on line for rehab counseling, I seriously did not open it or use it during my course work

showtime

good book