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With enlightening examples and illustrations drawn from counseling literature, RESEARCH DESIGN IN COUNSELING, 3e International Editoin fully addresses the common problems that confront counseling researchers. Heppner, Wampold, and Kivlighan's evenhanded approach provides students with an understanding of the various types of research, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Writing more than just a how-to book, the authors present a compelling rationale for the necessity of counselors conducting research-and argue for greater integration of science and practice domains in order for work in each to be more effective. Key Feature The book covers basic methodological issues in research design and writing a research report as well as methodological issues pertaining to both quantitative and qualitative research. This text's comprehensive coverage of research includes single-subject and survey research. Chapter 6, "Ethical Issues in Counseling Research," includes examples of actual forms (e.g., forms used for disclosure and release). Sections on statistical methods, integrated throughout the text, center on the ways in which counselors can use statistical methods across different research designs. The chapter on evaluation introduces students to employing research design in program evaluation¿both formative and summative. Chapter 18 on "Outcome Research" includes information on clinical trials, control groups, manualization of treatments, adherence, competence, psychopharmacological groups, and more. This text provides beginning graduate students an overview of several studies conducted by many of the foremost researchers in the profession. New to this Edition A new chapter on "Conceptual and Methodological Issues Related to Multicultural Research" (Chapter 15) raises many critical questions for researchers to consider in the field of multicultural research and brings together the latest thinking on these issues. Chapter 20, "Scale Construction," provides easy-to-follow guidelines and practical examples that guide the researcher toward the demystification of scale development processes; a critical chapter for researchers who are conducting scale construction projects, as well as those who want to understand more about the psychometric properties of existing inventories and promote multicultural understanding in the processes. Chapter 2, "Research Training", is totally devoted to graduate research training. The authors highlight the current research on this topic and discuss implications for students' development in acquiring research competencies. The chapter includes quotes from seasoned researchers from around the country who share critical aspects of their research journey. With openness and candor they share some of their own fears as well as joys along their path of becoming experts in their own research areas. The Ethics chapter (Chapter 6) has been updated to include a number of changes in the ethical code as well as the fifth edition of the APA Publication Manual (2001). Chapter 18, "Outcome Research: Methodological Issues," has been revised to include the most recent information on clinical trials, control groups, manualization of treatments, adherence, competence, psychopharmacological groups, as well as discusses issues related to evidence based practice. Chapter 10, "Quantitative Descriptive Designs," now includes some of the latest thinking and writing about the importance of examining mediating and moderating variables in research. These updated designs address the latest issues in all of these "regression family" kind of designs. This new edition reflects the authors' goal of facilitating a conceptual understanding of research design, with an emphasis on acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of all the designs including quantitative and qualitative. Updated references in each chapter¿as well as more diversity and cross-cultural related examples¿provide students with current and relevant information they can use in practice. The addition of stimulus questions or exercises at the end of each chapter furthers students' thinking about the material presented in the chapter. Table of Contents Part One: PHILOSOPHICAL, ETHICAL AND TRAINING ISSUES. 1. Science and Counseling. 2. Research Training. 3. Identifying and Operationalizing Research Topics. 4. Choosing Research Designs. 5. Validity Issues in Research Design. 6. Ethical Issues in Counseling Research. Part Two: MAJOR RESEARCH DESIGNS. 7. Between-Groups and Within-Subjects Designs. 8. Quasi-Experimental and Time Series Designs. 9. Single-Subject Designs. 10. Quantitative Descriptive Designs. 11. Qualitative Research. Part Three: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES. 12. Designing and Evaluating the Independent Variable. 13. Designing and Choosing the Dependent Variable. 14. Population Issues. 15. Conceptual and Methodological Issues Related to Multicultural Research. 16. Investigator, Experimenter, and Participant Bias. 17. Analogue Research. 18. Outcome Research: Methodological Issues. 19. Design Issues Related to Counseling Process Research. 20. Scale Construction. 21. Program Evaluation. Part Four: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES. 22. Professional Writing. Appendix A: Ethical Standards of the American Counseling Association. Appendix B: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct