Understanding and Evaluating Research in Applied and Clinical Settings

Clinically oriented professionals and students need to understand and evaluate the research and statistics in professional articles, especially given today’s emphasis on evidence-based practice. This book consists of a series of 33 previously published articles from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as an introduction and a conclusion on how to analyze and evaluate research articles. The book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis. Understanding and Evaluating Research features: Short, independent, chapters that can be read in any order. A guide to selecting an appropriate statistic. An emphasis on effects sizes including measures of risk potency. Numerous cross-disciplinary examples to illustrate the material. Methods to help determine practical and clinical significance and their relation to meta-analysis and evidence-based practice. A chapter on determining levels of evidence. This book is intended for practitioners and students in psychology, education, counseling, mental and allied health, nursing, and medicine, and as a text for courses on research methods and statistics. Exposure to research and statistics at the master’s level is assumed.