Research Design in Clinical Psychology

Alan E. Kazdin is Sterling Professor of Psychology and Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale University, as well as Director of the Yale Parenting Center. Kazdin's 700+ publications include over 50 books that focus on methodology, interventions for children and adolescents, parenting and child rearing, cognitive-behavioral treatment, and interpersonal violence. He has served as editor of six professional journals, and is a past president of the American Psychological Association.

Preface; About the Author; 1. Introduction; 2. Internal and External Validity; 3. Construct and Data-Evaluation Validity; 4. Ideas that Begin the Research Process; 5. Experimental Research Using Group Designs; 6. Control and Comparison Groups; 7. Case-Control and Cohort Designs; 8. Single-Case Experimental Research Designs; 9. Qualitative Research Methods; 10. Selecting Measures for Research; 11. Assessment: Types of Measures and Their Use; 12. Special Topics of Assessment; 13. Null Hypothesis Significance Testing; 14. Presenting and Analyzing the Data; 15. Cautions, Negative Effects, and Replication; 16. Ethical Issues and Guidelines for Research; 17. Scientific Integrity; 18. Communication of Research Findings; 19. Methodology: Constantly Evolving along with Advances in Science; Glossary; References; End Notes; Name Index; Subject Index.