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Involvement in practice-based research and accountability is an applied and a research necessity. This book stresses that research and practice are not separate domains but integrated. Emphasizes managed care and systems of health care delivery; shows how single-case designs fit into an overall model of science-based practice; covers current systems of assessment that allow the evaluation of elinical impact in the practice environment; and describes how program development and evaluation should fit into the skills of the modern empirical clinician. Topics include: a detailed description of managed care systems in chapter 2; includes a model of how ot succeed in managed care in chapter 4; and offers program evaluation in chapter 10. For clinical psychology practitioners who emphasize evalutation of treatment outcomes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #292384 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 438 pages

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Involvement in practice-based research and accountability is an applied and a research necessity. This book stresses that research and practice are not separate domains but integrated.

Emphasizes managed care and systems of health care delivery; shows how single-case designs fit into an overall model of science-based practice; covers current systems of assessment that allow the evaluation of elinical impact in the practice environment; and describes how program development and evaluation should fit into the skills of the modern empirical clinician. Topics include: a detailed description of managed care systems in chapter 2; includes a model of how ot succeed in managed care in chapter 4; and offers program evaluation in chapter 10.

For clinical psychology practitioners who emphasize evalutation of treatment outcomes.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource for Clinical Psychologists
This is one of the best practical books out there on how to adhere to accountability in clinical practice. Becoming a true scientist-practitioner is not just a pipe dream although many people would have you believe this. It astonishes me how adamant many mental health practitioners are these days about the "impossibility" of mixing empirical approaches with clinical practice in a balanced, responsible way, especially people who have never tried to do so or know very little about how to achieve this type of synthesis in the first place.

Grad student review
Having studied experimental research designs for the past 6 years and numerous topics dedicated to the subject, I have found this text to be the most convoluted and dense book on the subject of research yet. Rarely do the authors speak in a language that is accessible and meaningful to the general audiences of researchers and pre-researchers. Instead they are overly verbose and convoluted which makes searching for the key points and important concepts like fishing for a needle in a haystack. Here is an example sentence from page 202:

"The multiple baseline consists of a coordinated series of two or more replicated simple phase changes in several different data series arranged by person, behavior, time period, situation or any combination of these, in which the phase changes occur at different points in real time and after different first-phase lengths such that behavior changes are generally seen in interrupted series before phase changes are made in uninterrupted series."

A long, dense run-on sentence which does not succintly clarify the pointin a pithy or concise manner. Translation please! This book contains 386 pages of such text, and although there is valuable information within it, it is not user-friendly in the least.

If interested in research methodology and design, I would instead recommend Research Methods texts written by Zechmeister, Zechmeister, & Shaughnessy.