Scientific Practice of Professional Psychology

• I: The History of Scientific Research Training and the Local Clinical Scientist.- 1: The Problem of Integrating Science and Practice.- 2: The Local Clinical Scientist.- II: Extrapolations to Local Science from Traditional Science and Scholarship.- 3: Issues in the Philosophy of Science.- 4: Issues in Research Design.- 5: Issues in Quantitative Analysis: Foundations.- 6: Linking Theory and Data in the Scientific Study of Constructs and Individual Measurements.- III: Extrapolations to Local Science from Nontraditional Science and Scholarship.- 7: Issues in Qualitative Analysis.- 8: Logic, Critical Thinking, and the Local Clinical Scientist.- 9: Frameworks for Reflective Practice.- 10: Conclusion.- References.

'Well written, valuable, and provocative...The emphasis on nonpositivist scientific approaches, including qualitative methods, critical thinking and logic, and framework development is particularly valuable.' Choice, June 1998