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Single Case Methods in Clinical Psychology: A Practical Guide


Single Case Methods in Clinical Psychology: A Practical Guide

Paperback by Morley, Stephen (Professor of Clinical Psychology at University of Leeds)

Single Case Methods in Clinical Psychology: A Practical Guide

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ISBN:
9781138211506
Publication Date:
18 Dec 2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
196 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 22 May 2024
Single Case Methods in Clinical Psychology: A Practical Guide

Description

Single-Case Methods in Clinical Psychology: A Practical Guide provides a concise and easily-accessible introduction to single-case research. This is a timely response to the increasing awareness of the need to look beyond randomised controlled trials for evidence to support best practice in applied psychology. The book covers the issues of design, the reliability and validity of measurement, and provides guidance on how to analyse single-case data using both visual and statistical methods. Single-case designs can be used to investigate an individual's response to psychological intervention, as well as to contribute to larger scale research projects. This book illuminates the common principles behind these uses. It describes how standardised measures can be used to evaluate change in an individual and how to develop idiographic measures that are tailored to the needs of an individual. The issue of replication and generalising beyond an individual are examined, and the book also includes a section on the meta-analysis of single-case data. The critical evaluation of single-case research is examined, from both the perspective of developing quality standards to evaluate research and maintaining a critical distance in reviewing one's own work. Single Case Methods in Clinical Psychology will provide invaluable guidance to postgraduate psychologists training to enter the professions of clinical, health and counselling psychology and is likely to become a core text on many courses. It will also appeal to clinicians seeking to answer questions about the effectiveness of therapy in individual cases and who wish to use the method to further the evidence-base for specific psychological interventions.

Contents

Contents Chapter 1 Why single case research? Chapter 2 Standardised measures and what you can do with them Chapter 3 Target measures: unique measures for the individual Chapter 4 Designing single-case experiments Chapter 5 Visual analysis of single-case data Chapter 6 Statistical analysis of single-case data Chapter 7 Replication, replication, replication Chapter 8 Critical evaluation of single case research Stephen Morley with Ciara Masterson Afterword Chris Main and Ciara Masterson

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