Research Catalog

Title

Single case experimental designs : strategies for studying behavior change / David H. Barlow, Matthew K. Nock, Michel Hersen.

Author

Barlow, David H.

Publication

Boston : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nock, Matthew.
• Hersen, Michel.

Description

xvi, 393 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This is a sourcebook that provides an introduction to the use of single case experimental designs, offering guidelines for their use in a range of research and clinical settings. Written in a non-technical style, this book is accessible to individuals from a range of backgrounds including advanced undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and mental health practitioners - as well as to those working from a wide range of perspectives, including clinical, educational or school psychology, social work, psychiatry, nursing, and other fields focused on human behavior change."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Psychology, Experimental
• Research Design
• Behavioral Research > methods
• Behavior
• Psychology > Research
• Experimental design
• Single subject research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-373) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The single case in basic and applied research : an historical perspective -- General issues in a single-case approach -- General procedures in single-case research -- Behavior assessment -- Basic A-B-A withdrawal designs -- Extensions of the A-B-A design, uses in drug evaluation and interaction design strategies -- Multiple baseline designs -- Alternating treatments design -- Statistical analyses for single-case experimental designs -- Beyond the individual : direct, systematic, and clinical replication procedures.

ISBN

• 9780205474554
• 0205474551

LCCN

^^2008000545

OCLC

• 190785264
• SCSB-10719623

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library