Single Case Experimental Designs: Strategies for Studying Behavior for Change

By David H. Barlow and Michel Hersen

Book Overview

Single Case Experimental Designs provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the use of single case experimental designs. Single case experiments are a flexible and efficient type of research design that can be easily learned and used in both scientific and practical settings to make causal inferences about the relations between an intervention or manipulation and change in the individual. The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive sourcebook on single case experimental designs with practical guidelines for their use in a range of research and clinical settings. It is suitable for use as a textbook for a course on research methodology or clinical assessment and treatment, or as a desk reference for seasoned researchers and practicing clinicians. Written in a non-technical style, this book is designed to be accessible to individuals from a range of backgrounds including advanced undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and mental health practitioners-and to those working from a wide range of perspectives, including clinical psychology, educational or school psychology, social
work, psychiatry, nursing, and other fields focused on human behavior change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205474551
• ISBN13: 9780205474554
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource

An excellent primer for anyone going into behavioural science, or those clinicians who feel like doing some quality research. Barlow and Herson do an outstanding job of exploring the relatively complex area of n=1 research.

Single Case Experimental Designs

Barlow and Hersen present a thorough revision of a book which has become a classic. The second edition has a completely new invited chapter by Donald P. Hartmann on behavioral assessment, in addition to Alan E Kazdin's chapter on statistical analysis. A special feature of the new edition is expanded material on clinical replication. --- from book's back cover