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couNSelINg aSSeSSmeNt
aNd evaluatIoN:
Fundamentals of Applied Practice
Joshua C. Watson, Texas A&M University,
Corpus Christi • Brandé Flamez, Walden
University
Designed to help students learn how to assess
clients, conduct treatment planning, and
evaluate client outcomes, this practical book
addresses specific CACREP competencies.
Incorporating case studies and examples,
authors Watson and Flamez provide
foundational knowledge for sound formal and
informal assessments, cover ethical and legal considerations in assessment,
describe basic statistical concepts, highlight the domains in which assessments
are commonly used (intelligence, aptitude, achievement, personality, career, etc.),
and provide strategies for integrating assessment data when working with clients.
ISBN: 978-1-4522-2624-8 • auguSt 2014 • 584 pageS •
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school Counseling
The essenTIal sChool
Counselor In a ChangIng
SocIety
Jeannine R. Studer, University of
Tennessee at Knoxville
Jeannine R. Studer's The Essential School
Counselor in a Changing Society offers
a practical approach to helping students
understand the methods and standards in
contemporary school counseling. Integrating
the new ASCA model as well as the CACREP
Standards across all areas of school counseling
practice, this core text provides a unique and
relevant perspective on the 21
st
century school counselor.
Studer focuses on ethics and ethical decision making, as well as contemporary
issues faced by today's counselors such as crisis response, career counseling and
advisement, group counseling, advocacy, and collaboration. The text begins with
coverage of school counseling foundations, addresses intervention and prevention,
and devotes the final section to enhancing academics through a positive school
culture.
ISBN: 978-1-4522-5746-4 • FeBruary 2014 • 472 pageS •
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reSearch methodS For
CounselIng: An Introduction
Robert J. Wright, Widener University
This text provides a rich, culturally sensitive
presentation of current research techniques in
counseling. Author Robert J. Wright introduces the
theory and research involved in research design,
measurement, and assessment with an appealingly
clear writing style. He addresses ways to meet
the requirements of providing the data needed to
facilitate evidence-based therapy and interventions
with clients, and also explains methods for the
evaluation of counseling programs and practices.
This comprehensive resource covers a broad range of research methods topics such
as qualitative research, action research, and quantitative research, including sampling
and probability and probability-based hypothesis testing. Coverage of both action
research and mixed methods research designs is also included.
ISBN: 978-1-4522-0394-2 • ©2014 • 624 pageS •
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CounselIng and eduCaTIonal
researCh: Evaluation and
Application ThIrd edITIon
Rick A. Houser, The University of Alabama
The Third Edition emphasizes the importance of
being a good consumer of research and teaches
readers how to conduct research in practice.
Written in an engaging, conversational tone, the
book uses concrete examples from professional
literature to demonstrate how to effectively
evaluate and interpret research articles—without
relying on discipline-specific jargon. The Third
Edition features new examples, updated research,
a new chapter on single-subject research, a new chapter on the use of technology
and research, and much more.
ISBN: 978-1-4522-7702-8 • FeBruary 2014 • 368 pageS •
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BESTSELLER!
researCh desIgn: Qualitative,
Quantitative, and Mixed Methods
Approaches fourTh edITIon
John W. Creswell, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln
This best seller covers philosophical assumptions,
a review of the literature, an assessment of the use
of theory in research approaches, and reflections
about the importance of writing and ethics in
scholarly inquiry for all three approaches.
ISBN: 978-1-4522-2610-1 • ©2014 • 304 pageS •
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