Course Description
This course will cover the use of techniques related to the linear model and how to use such procedures to solve problems and to answer questions in the areas of community and counseling contexts. The application of multiple regression techniques to a wide range of quantitative research designs will be covered.
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
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Rationale
Counselors are increasingly required to demonstrate the efficacy of their interventions and treatment strategies. Within the helping profession, there is increasing pressure to provide treatments that are evidence-based. It is no longer professionally acceptable for counselors to rely simply on their experience and previous training in a particular theory or approach to counseling to treat specific kinds of clinical problems such as depression, anxiety, and addictions. We are currently in an era of accountability. This accountability also applies to professional Christian counselors, as the profession will face growing demands to demonstrate efficacy. Moreover, the field of Christian counseling and community care makes knowledge claims about human behavior, developmental processes, spirituality and mental health functioning, and the importance of close relationships. If we believe our knowledge claims have practical, real-life applications, Christian academia has a responsibility to demonstrate that these knowledge claims can have practical applications that can be empirically validated. To this end, doctoral level practitioners and academics must be able to appropriately consume the current scientific research such that they can identify potential strengths and weaknesses of research reports and understand how such data can be interpreted and generalized to areas of interests. The purpose of this course is designed to help the student acquire an advanced understanding of research design and statistical techniques necessary to not only understand and consume the scientific literature in and around the field of counseling and community care, but to also produce a high quality doctoral dissertation that meaningfully contributes to the scientific literature.
Course Assignment
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After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
The paper must contain the following elements, using current APA style:
- Title page
- Abstract
- Review of Literature. Both summarize and critically evaluate the current literature on the topic. The student will create within the summary an argument for why this topic is important and the issues and new research it needs to address. This must be written in a research-scientific format, as if it is to be submitted to a journal for publication.
This review will serve as the basis for the student’s future research interests. For a sufficient overview of the literature, the review must be 7–10 pages of empirically-based, critical writing. The review must:
- Summarize the research in a logical, sequential manner.
- Make a case for why additional research needs to be conducted to fill important gaps in scientific literature.
The student will write a method section for his/her proposed article in the current APA format. The method section should contain a description of the research design and give specific detail as to whether: a) the design was with or without intervention, b) multiple methods were used, and c) other descriptive details that allow the reader to clearly understand the specific methodology. Both important demographic characteristics of the participant population and measurement approaches must be described thoroughly.
The student must provide a results section of a multiple regression analysis using Hayes Process Macro, written in the current APA format. This assignment must be a minimum of 3 pages including the tables and figures. The student must include all relevant tables and figures. The student should complete data screening of his/her chosen variables prior to conducting the analysis. The student must attach his/her SPSS output to the assignment as well. Additionally, the student will write a discussion section in current APA format. The discussion section should primarily refer to the results and whether the data confirms or negates the original hypotheses and the implications of the results. A discussion of potential biases, research imperfections, extraneous variables, limitations, and internal/external validity of findings is appropriate here. The researcher should discuss the inferences, consequences, and application for the results. The discussion section should end with a concise conclusion revealing the importance of the study.
The student will complete CITI training, which is an online training course on ethics in research. To complete training, follow the instructions on this website: https://www.liberty.edu/graduate/institutional-review-board/collaborative-institutional-training-initiative/. CITI training allows users to select which subjects to complete, and the student only needs to complete the social and behavioral researchers’ sections for this course. If the student has previously completed CITI training within the last 2 years, he/she does not need to complete it again if he/she submits proof of completion.
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The student will carefully acquire and read a minimum of 25 different peer-reviewed articles relating to shame. Articles must be relatively recent (last 10 years). Notes must include a citation and a few sentences to a paragraph of notes for each article. The student should be careful to only cite sources of original research, and not to reference information that is presented in an author’s literature review. (If the student reads information in a literature review that he/she would like to include, the student must look up the citation and find the original research.) Citations are to be submitted on a weekly basis. They will be graded as the student works his/her way to 200 points before beginning the intensive. Each article is worth 8 points. The notes on an article can be as brief as a single sentence.
This quiz is comprised of 25 essay questions, has no time limit, and allows unlimited attempts.
In a doctoral level course, in-class class participation is essential to your development as a scholar. Submit a paragraph in Word describing your class participation throughout the intensive module. This assignment is worth 200 points.
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