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Research Design in Clinical Psychology by Alan E. Kazdin

dinosaursatwork's review

2.0

This book appears suitable for bachelor students, but too simple for master students. Kazdin tries to write engaging, but I find it annoying. For example, he comares to interventions that have equal effects and sassily remarks that you cannot conclude that either intervention was effective. Great, that's a mistake I haven't made since my first year Bachelor, maybe we can step up the intervention evaluation a bit. At times it reads as if Kazdin tried to imitate Andy Field, but isn't quite going all the way, making it a rather dry read with sad attempts at humour.
I would also like to point out that the book contains some errors and is not available in book-form in Europe, so I think this book is really overpriced.