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Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies
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Third Edition
By
Elizabeth DePoy, PhD, OTR, MSW, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Laura Gitlin, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Description
This clearly written, easy-to-understand book demystifies the research process and provides a rational foundation from which to critique
and understand research designs and applications in health care and human service settings. Divided into five parts - Introduction, Thinking
Processes, Design Approaches, Action Processes, and Improving Practice Through Inquiry - it explores multiple research strategies, proposing
that naturalistic and experimental-type research strategies have equal value and contribute in complementary and distinct ways to the
science of practice. Content in this edition has been significantly expanded and updated to reflect changes in the field, specifically
in areas of ethics, informed consent, practice efficacy, and proposal-writing.
Contents
Part I. Introduction
1. Research as an important way of knowing
2. Essentials of research
Part II. Thinking
processes
3. Philosophical foundations
4. Framing the problem
5. Developing a knowledge base through review of the
literature
6. Theory in research
7. Formulating research questions and queries
8. Language and thinking processes
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III. Design approaches
9. Experimental-type designs
10. Naturalistic inquiry
Part IV. Action processes
11.
Setting the boundaries of a study
12. Protecting the boundaries
13. Boundary setting in experimental-type designs
14. Boundary
setting in naturalistic designs
15. Collecting information
16. Measurement in experimental-type research
17. Gathering information
in naturalistic inquiry
18. Preparing and organizing data
19. Statistical analysis for experimental-type research
20. Analysis
in naturalistic inquiry
21. Sharing research knowledge before
22. Sharing research knowledge during and after
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V. Improving practice through inquiry
23. Case study designs
24. Practice efficacy
25. Stories from the field
Appendix.
Informed Consent Documents
Glossary
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Paperback, 368 pages, publication date: MAY-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-02853-0
ISBN-10: 0-323-02853-5
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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