Making Research Relevant: Applied Research Designs for the Mental Health Practitioner

Making Research Relevant is the ideal core textbook for master’s-level introduction to research methods courses in any mental health field.

Accessible and user friendly, it is designed to help trainees and practitioners understand, connect, and apply research to clinical practice and day-to-day work with students and clients. The text covers foundational concepts, such as research ethics, the consumption of research, and how to analyze data, as well as an additional 11 applied, evaluative, and outcome-based research methods that can be applied in clinical practice.

Easy to read, conversational chapters are infused with case examples from diverse settings, paired with brief video lectures (available on the Routledge website), as well as practice-based applications that will walk students and practitioners through their own client or case scenario. Readers will come away from the book with a variety of tools for applying research methods in ways that can benefit mental health practitioners in real-world scenarios.

Kelly L. Wester, PhD, is a professor of counselor education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has taught graduate courses in research and provided worksh ops on research methodology.

Carrie A. Wachter Morris, PhD, is a professor of counselor education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and past president of the Association of Assessment and Research in Counseling.