Monday, May 25, 2020

Research Is A Critical Part Of Becoming A Practitioner

While it may not seem important, research is a critical part of becoming a practitioner. Understanding statistics will help you become a more compassionate and helpful counselor because it will help guide your choice of interventions. Evidence based knowledge is ethical and helps guide your effectiveness along with helping you to avoid being misled by those who are marshalling support for their own agenda. Research encompasses a large range of activities which can be incorporated into everyday professional practice. Research data and methods can be put into two categories – quantitative and qualitative. The social sciences have been a quantitative field since its conception but a qualitative approach to psychological research has gained†¦show more content†¦Finally, the last step involves using math to analyze the information and this is done with statistics. There are four types of quantitative research: survey, correlational, causal-comparative and experimental. Survey research is extremely common and uses sampling polls, interviews and questionnaires to get a feel for the behavior. It can be conducted with a single group or a comparison of several but it is important to question people at random to obtain more accurate findings across a greater span. Correlational research is the measure of which two variables are related. If one variables increase tends to be associated with an increase in the other variable then this is known as a positive correlation. An example would be height and weight. Taller people tend to be heavier. (McLeod, 2008). If an increase tends to be associated with a decrease in the other then this is known as a negative correlation. An example would be height above sea level and temperature. As you climb the mountain (increase in height) it gets colder (decrease in temperature) (McLeod, 2008). When there is no re lationship between the two variables there is a zero correlation. Causal-comparative research involves comparison research and exposes the cause and effect of a given relationship between two variables. The study of two or more groups does not focus on their relationship. Instead, it tries to identify how the different groups in the same circumstance are

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