Counseling Research: A Practitioner-Scholar Approach

by Richard S. Balkin, David M. Kleist

This widely adopted and accessible introductory text for counselors-in-training and emerging researchers provides a foundational understanding of the primary research methods used in counseling and how these concepts can be applied to research design. Writing in a clear and conversational tone, the authors emphasize the importance of ethics and multicultural issues in informing research, demonstrate a professional counselor identity within the framework of research, and outline specific evidence-based and empirically supported findings for counseling practice. The book contains four parts that explain the practitioner-scholar model and the research process, quantitative and qualitative research methodology and design, and research measurement and program evaluation. Key features include a discussion of the fundamentals of statistics, practical research design illustrations in each chapter, guidelines for the development of an initial study, and suggested activities that synthesize and apply chapter content. New to this edition is a glossary to assist readers with the technical terms discussed in the text and a test manual and PowerPoints for instructors' use, which are available by request from the American Counseling Association.

Genres: Counselling, School, Nonfiction, Grad School

384 pages, Paperback

Published October 25, 2022

Reviews

[Susie · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you enjoy watching paint dry, or kettles boiling, or grass growing, you might enjoy this text.

[Cori · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dry as a bag of rice cakes, but that's to be expected.

[Kimmie]

*grad school requirement

[Zion Lily · Rating 3 out of 5]

A peek into research and statistics in the psychology world. I respect the writers who wrote about a complicated and tedious subject in an approachable way. Despite it being subject matter that I struggled to retain, this book is a part of my journey for learning how to be a nuanced and intelligent consumer of research.

[Claire]

It's fine. Who wants to read a research book? But they make it readable, not fun, but readable. The qualitative chapters were the most engaging because they flowed so nicely and relied mostly on examples to explain the material.

[Dana Libhart · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5/5
It's hard to rate textbooks because they are generally not fun or easy to read. This ebook was well-organized and I was able to find the information I needed fairly easily. Research is just not my topic of choice, and so this was very difficult to pick up.

[Shanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent and somewhat comprehensive primer for my graduate-level research and program evaluation class.