Course Description
Quantitative research methodologies that are used in counseling psychology. The course introduces students to quantitative research designs and their statistical analysis, methods of reading and writing about research, multicultural perspectives on counseling psychology research, and the role of research in the evidence-based practice of counseling psychology.
Athena Title
Res Methods in Couns Psych
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Students will increase their knowledge about the various kinds of approaches to research a. conceptual, theoretical, and/or historical b. survey/descriptive/exploratory c. experimental and quasi-experimental) that lead to publications in the counseling and related applied psychology literature. 2. Students will be introduced to the major quantitative approaches that are used to perform research. 3. Students will learn more advanced skills associated with reading scholarly journal articles and understanding the processes that go into organizing and preparing a scholarly manuscript. 4. Students will gain a fuller understanding of the importance of multicultural perspectives in the conduct of research and how to incorporate diversity-related variables into research designs. 5. Students will increase their learning of the contribution of the research process in counseling psychology to the nature and status of evidence-based psychotherapy.
Topical Outline
Non-experimental exploratory and descriptive research designs Quasi-experimental research designs Experimental research designs New approaches to statistical analysis of research designs Reading research effectively Writing effectively about research Diversity and multicultural issues in research Professional and peer-review processes in the generation and dissemination of research Research methodology and evidence-based practices in Counseling Psychology
Syllabus