In the ten years since the first edition of this work was published it has established itself as an essential textbook. Members of the different healthcare professions have come to work more closely together as they all face increasing demands for high queality care at less cost. Health professionals today must be able to justify their treatment interventions in the light of available research evidence. In areas where no such evidence exists the pressure in on to undertake the research which may provide it. Research Method for Clinical Therapists: Applied project Design and Analysis provides a comprehensive introduction to undertaking and evaluating research. It clarifies research methods and statistical analysis in order that practitioners will find it easier to conduct their own research and be able to critically evaluate material published by others.

FEATURES:

• Provides and overview of major research approaches with an emphasis on experimental methods and data analysis
• Whitten in straightforward language, it demystifies a sometimes difficult subject
• Includes a glossary to explain the occasionally unavoidable jargon
• Keeps statistical theory to a minimum
• Directly related to the clinical situation
• Illustrated with worked examples to illustrate the theory
• Relevant to all clinical therapeutic groups

CONTENTS:

Section 1: Basic principles of research. Introduction research design and statistics: some basic concepts. Questionnaires, Surveys and sampling. The nature of the data. Techniques of descriptive statistics. Testing hypotheses. Designing your study. Sources of error in research. Matching the research design to the statistical test. Putting the theory into practice. Writting up the research for publication. reading published research critically. Section 2: Statistical test. Non-parametric test for different-(unrelated) Subject designs. Parametric test for different-(Unrelated)subject designs. Non-parametic and parametric test for correlational designs. Estimulation. Section 3: Research applications. attitude scales. Repertory grid analysis. The delphi technique.