Concepts for Counselors
Second Edition
Author
Geoffrey W. Sutton PhD
Reviewers
Various
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“Even though I completed multiple graduate level statistics courses, I benefitted from the simple and straight forward content of this text. Practice tests at the end of chapters helps assess learning and application. This is a great refresher resource for counselors and beginning graduate students.”
––Christine Arnzen, Ph.D., LPC, Associate Professor, Coordinator,
“If you need to review basic statistics and don’t know where to begin, this book is perfect! It makes difficult concepts easy to understand. I would recommend it for my undergraduate students who haven’t had statistics in a while and need a refresher, or for graduate students facing their first graduate level research class!”
—Heather L. Kelly, Psy.D., Professor of Psychology, Department Chair,
“I really appreciated the places where you gave applied examples. For me, those have always helped me to understand the function of statistics.”
—Nick Schollars, M.S., Mental Health Counseling, PsyD
“This comprehensive yet concise overview of statistical concepts related to counseling research and practice, is a much needed must-read for all counselling graduate students before they start writing their research proposal. Too often I’ve had to read research proposals where candidates have just not done the necessary legwork before deciding on what and why they want to research the topic, and how they want to do it. This text would be an important starting point - once they have decided, much more detail (not included in this text) would have to be explored, but this primer will help graduates find their way in making those important research decisions at the start of their journey. They will thank Geoff Sutton for helping them find their way and pointing them in the right direction.”
—Dr. Mervin Van der Spuy, Psychopharmacologist & Couples Therapist,
Introduction 7
Unit 1: Overview: Statistics in Perspective 13
2.
Counseling Research 21
3.
Variables 25
4.
Forming Groups 31
5.
Measurement 37
7. Distribution of Data 47
8. On
Average 51
9.
Ranges 55
10.
Distributions Part 1 61
11.
Distributions Part 2 67
12.
Hypothesis Testing 73
13.
Correlation 79
14.
Charts 87
15.
Predictions 91
17.
Analysis of Variance 103
18.
Chi-square 113
20. Test
Score Reliability 125
21.
Test Score Validity 131
23.
Reading Complex Statistics 143
Appendix
A: Normal Curve 158
Appendix
B: Test Scores 159
Appendix
C: Practice Test 160
Appendix
D: Answers to Practice Test 173
Appendix
E: Symbols and Abbreviations 176
Appendix
F: Glossary 179
Appendix
G: Online Resources 189
Table of
Contents Detailed View 193
Acknowledgements 200
About the
Author 201
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