Counseling Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods

by Carl J. Sheperis, J. Scott Young, M. Harry Daniels

Using Counseling Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods , counseling students are given the opportunity to learn research design, methodology, and analysis through a counseling-specific framework. While other comparable survey books on education-related research and statistics do not contain many specific examples and applications of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods from the counseling profession, this texts gives counseling students the opportunity to learn research methods within their own unique discipline. By using counseling-specific examples, students will be more able to apply their learning to other aspects of their training and professors will have a more straightforward means of making research understandable and relevant to the master’s level counseling student. Counseling Research also focuses not only on how to produce valid research, but also on how to competently read, analyze, and utilize others’ research. In addition to the requisite research materials, the textbook includes chapters on ethics in counseling research, multicultural issues in counseling research, and a practical guide to SPSS.

Genres: Counselling, School, Nonfiction, Psychology

360 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2009

Reviews

[Melissa Lee-Tammeus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Forced upon me and read quite reluctantly, I really can't give an unbiased viewpoint of this book. It some areas, it was incredibly simple and quite demeaning. In other areas, I had no clue what the authors were talking about. I will most likely refer to this book to remind myself of the need for a intuition/pluralist model or remembering how to do a frequency distribution, but I don't anticipate this being one of my faves that I look back on fondly.

[Rose Boyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Text Book on Research Methods

[Emily Ellison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a bad book, but the topic itself is boring. This book is better than other research textbooks I have read. It was required reading for a counseling research class. Pretty decent reading.

[Tim Tuttle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Text for grad school... served its purpose... when I could stay awake.