Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research

Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research offers innovative research tools that are most effective for understanding social problems in general and change in complex person-environment systems at the community level. Methodological pluralism and mixed-methods research are the overarching themes in this groundbreaking edited volume, as contributors explain cutting-edge research methodologies that analyze data in special groupings, over time, or within various contexts. As such, the methodologies presented here are holistic and culturally valid, and support contextually grounded community interventions. This volume features web appendices that include a variety of research applications (e.g., SPSS, SAS, GIS) and guidelines for the accompanying data sets. The extensive illustrations and case studies in Methodological Approaches will give readers a comprehensive understanding of community-level phenomena and a rich appreciation for the way collaboration across behavioral science disciplines leads to more effective community-based interventions.

Table of Contents:
Contributors Foreword  Raymond P. Lorion Preface Acknowledgments Chapter : Introduction: An Overview of Methodological Innovations in Community Research  Leonard A. Jason and David S. Glenwick Part I: Pluralism and Mixed Methods in Community Research Chapter 2: Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Implications for Research Practice  Jacob Kraemer Tebes Chapter 3: Methodological Pluralism: Implications for Consumers and Producers of Research  Chris Barker and Nancy Pistrang Chapter 4: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches: An Example of Mixed Methods Research  Rebecca Campbell, Katie A. Gregory, Debra Patterson, and Deborah Bybee Part II: Methods Involving Grouping of Data Chapter 5: Clustering and Its Applications in Community Research  Allison B. Dymnicki and David B. Henry Chapter : The Person-Oriented Approach and Community Research  G. Anne Bogat, Nicole Zarrrett, Stephen C. Peck, and Alexander von Eye Chapter 7: Meta-Analysis in Community-Oriented Research  Joseph A. Durlak and Molly Pachan Part III: Methods Involving Change Over Time Chapter 8: Time-Series Analysis in Community-Oriented Research  Bettina B. Hoeppner and Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell Chapter 9: Survival Analysis in Prevention and Intervention Programs  Christian M. Connell Part IV: Methods Involving Contextual Factors Chapter : Multilevel Modeling: Method and Application for Community-Based Research  Nathan R. Todd, Nicole E. Allen, and Shabnam Javdani Chapter : Epidemiologic Approaches to Community-Based Research  Leonard A. Jason, Nicole Porter, and Alfred Rademaker Chapter 2: Applying Geographic Information Systems to Community Research  Cory M. Morton, N. Andrew Peterson, Paul W. Speer, Robert J. Reid, and Joseph Hughey Chapter 3: Economic Cost Analysis for Community-Based Interventions  Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Leonard A. Jason Afterword  James G. Kelly Index About the Editors

About the Author :
Leonard A. Jason, PhD, is a professor of psychology at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, where he heads the Center for Community Research. He has authored over 55 articles and 77 book chapters on recovery homes for the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse preventive school-based interventions media interventions chronic fatigue syndrome and program evaluation. He has been on the editorial boards of seven peer-reviewed psychology journals and has edited or written 23 books. He has served on review committees of the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health and has received more than $2 million in federal grants to support his research. He is a former president of APA's Division of Community Psychology and a past editor of The Community Psychologist. He has received three media awards from APA, and he is frequently asked to comment on policy issues for the media. Dr. Jason is the recipient of the 2 Perpich Award from the International Association for CFS/ME (chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis) for distinguished service to the CFS/ME community.   David S. Glenwick, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Fordham University, New York, NY, where he also has been the director of the graduate program in clinical psychology and co-coordinator of its specialization in clinical child and family psychology. He has authored more than articles and edited four books, primarily in the areas of community and preventive psychology, clinical child psychology and developmental disabilities, and the teaching of psychology. Dr. Glenwick is a former president of the American Association of Correctional Psychology and a former editor of the journal Criminal Justice and Behavior. He is a fellow of seven APA divisions and has been a member of the APA Continuing Education Committee. Dr. Glenwick has been on the editorial boards of four professional journals and is currently the chair of the New York State Psychological Association's Continuing Education Committee.  

Review :
The value of this slim volume is its laser focus on several theoretically sound and versatile contemporary research methods. (Journal of Mixed Methods Research) This book is illustrative of the ongoing implications of the immense steps committee psychologists talk in forging new approaches to psychology. It is as valuable for what it is implicit and what is made explicit. It serves to provide the discipline with further avenues to explore what a contextualize science really means. (The Australian Community Psychologist) This book is useful amp hellip in not just simply asserting that qualitative methods need to be added to the community psychologists' armamentarium. The text provides a sophisticated discussion of the many different ways this kind of effort proceeds. Anchored in community-based participatory research, the book provides a reasoned discussion of the benefits and limitations of qualitative/quantitative pluralism, and conservative ways in which the cost ratio can be maximized. (The Community Psychologist)