Methodological Approaches to Community-Based

A prevailing paradigm in social research and community-based interventions involves examining individual problems within various contexts-from the interpersonal to the community at large. Yet the research methodologies used to support these interventions typically lack the ability to consider data from this multilevel, systemic perspective. Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research presents a range of innovative research methodologies that address this basic problem in community-based research frameworks, thereby facilitating more encompassing and more nuanced analyses and interventions. Contributors to this groundbreaking volume offer appropriate methodologies for addressing specific, community-based problems that are relevant to both researchers and practitioners involved in designing, implementing, and evaluating social, health, and education programs from a variety of perspectives, including community psychology, developmental psychology and aging, health and rehabilitation psychology, neuropsychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and consumer psychology, among them. A special feature of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research are Web Appendixes that include a variety of research applications (e.g., SPSS, SAS, Mplus, GIS) and detailed guidelines on how to run the applications for analyzing the accompanying data sets.

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 550 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 $26 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 2011 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 110 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.

Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction: An Overview of Methodological Innovations in Community Research	p. 3
Pluralism and Mixed Methods in Community Research	p. 11
Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Implications for Research Practice	p. 13
Methodological Pluralism: Implications for Consumers and Producers of Research	p. 33
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches: An Example of Mixed Methods Research	p. 51
Methods Involving Grouping of Data	p. 69
Clustering and Its Applications in Community Research	p. 71
The Person-Oriented Approach and Community Research	p. 89
Meta-Analysis in Community-Oriented Research	p. 111
Methods Involving Change Over Time	p. 123
Time-Series Analysis in Community-Oriented Research	p. 125
Survival Analysis in Prevention and Intervention Programs	p. 147
Methods Involving Contextual Factors	p. 165
Multilevel Modeling: Method and Application for Community-Based Research	p. 167
Epidemiologic Approaches to Community-Based Research	p. 187
Applying Geographic Information Systems to Community Research	p. 205
Economic Cost Analysis for Community-Based Interventions	p. 221
Afterword	p. 239
Index	p. 247
About the Editors	p. 259
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