Psychological methodology

Minority and cross-cultural psychology is more relevant now than ever in our diverse world.

This accessible guide offers a concise introduction to the science behind worry in children, summarising research from across psychology to explore the role of worry in a range of circumstances, from everyday worries to those that can seriously impact children's lives.

This fully updated fourth edition explores the foundations of statistical reasoning, focusing on how to interpret psychological data and statistical results.

Emphasizes digital means to record and code behavior; while observational methods do not require them, they work better with them.

The Generic Qualitative Approach to a Dissertation in the Social Sciences: A Step by Step Guide is a practical guide for the graduate students and faculty planning and executing a generic qualitative dissertation in the social sciences.

In this comprehensive handbook, Ragin and Keenan present an all-encompassing analysis of the variety of different methods used in health psychology research.

OPD-3 - präziser und stärker dimensional ausgerichtet Die Operationalisierte Psychodynamische Diagnostik (OPD) ist ein multiaxiales psychodynamisches Diagnosesystem, welches inzwischen einen weithin akzeptierten Standard in der psychodynamischen Diagnostik für Klinik und Forschung darstellt.

Essentials of Rorschach Assessment provides an invaluable resource for clinicians, offering the only step-by-step guidance toward all aspects of the Rorschach Comprehensive System and Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS).

Meet the challenges of high stakes testing in the practice of school psychology School psychologists can be a positive influence on how students, teachers, parents, schools, and communities cope with the challenges and opportunities associated with high stakes testing.

Recursion is the best tool for working with trees and graphs.

Writing Empirical Research Reports: A Basic Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ninth Edition, offers clear and practical guidance on how to write research proposals, reports, theses, and dissertations.

This book examines therapeutic failures in psychotherapy.

This book integrates postmodern theories of therapeutic research and practice to demonstrate how these approaches can be effectively integrated into methods of data collection and analysis.

Mental health promotion is an emerging field of interest to many health professionals.

In this book, authors Tenko Raykov and George A.

This is the first book to explain the many synergies between solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) and harm reduction (HR).

This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions, including schizophrenia.

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation is an up-to-date survey of the growing research on automatic item generation (AIG) in today's technology-enhanced educational measurement sector.

Undertaking qualitative research in psychology can seem like a daunting and complex process, especially when it comes to selecting the most appropriate approach for your project.

The government performance movement has been in full swing for decades around the world.

This innovative text offers a completely integrated approach to teaching research methods and statistics by presenting a research question accompanied by the appropriate methods and statistical procedures needed to address it.

There is a recent surge in the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) within education globally, with disproportionate claims being made about what they show, 'what works', and what constitutes the best 'evidence'.

This authoritative handbook--now significantly revised with more than 50% new material--introduces practitioners and students to the state of the art in psychological interventions for managing pain.

The problem of the out-of-control teenager demands immediate and effective attention from clinicians.

Proposes that the barrier to creating valid measures of subjective wellbeing is a pervasive response bias that differs between cultures.

Until recently, most psychological research was conducted using subject samples in close proximity to the investigators--namely university undergraduates.

This is a concise, easy to use, step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using SPSS.

Originally published in 1983 and written in the tradition of the British School of Psychology, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck, Cattell, this book from a well-known author was exceptional at the time in its attempt to wed quantification and psychological theory in the study of personality.

In vielen Wissenschaften gilt die Anwendung von Statistik als Ausweis von Wissenschaftlichkeit und erlaubt (vermeintlich) allgemeingültige Aussagen.

Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundamental Techniques is a resource book that presents the most fundamental techniques of quantitative data analysis in the field of language assessment.

Offering rhetorically informed strategic interventions, this innovative collection moves beyond critiques of mental health issues, problems, and care.

Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology: Measurement, Design, and Data Analysis provides a state-of-the-art review of current issues and best practices in the science of Occupational Health Psychology.

Dieses Buch liefert für Studierende eine fundierte Einführung in die Verfahren der Multivariaten Statistik.

This book critically examines the historical and philosophical foundations of construct validity theory (CVT), and how these have and continue to inform and constrain the conceptualization of validity and its application in research.

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Violence is a research topic that is fraught with difficulties.

This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study.

Ordered Regression Models: Parallel, Partial, and Non-Parallel Alternatives presents regression models for ordinal outcomes, which are variables that have ordered categories but unknown spacing between the categories.

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This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

This interdisciplinary volume features contributions from researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, statistics, computer science, and physics.

This edited volume illustrates the idea of a successful research capacity model, critically addressing preconceived notions of early career research projects' impact and drawing together insights and implications around the encouragement of newer researchers to conduct useful, robust studies with real-world effect.

There is a myth that people with mental disorders comply poorly with treatment.

This book provides an evidence-based guide to working with visible difference in therapeutic practice.

Ever had difficulty choosing a research project?

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