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As a counselor, you will be making decisions on how to select evidence-based treatments. In your essay, demonstrate the decision-making process that you will use to choose one evidence-based treatment over another. Write a 1,000-1,250-word reflection essay on how to effectively utilize research in order to guide decision-making processes in the counseling profession. Include the following in your essay:
- A discussion about how qualitative and quantitative research reports guide the decision-making process.
- A discussion about the key characteristics of effective writing and publication in counseling and psychological research. How do these characteristics guide the decision-making processes?
- Select a diagnosis and include an example of how research could assist in treatment.
- Include a minimum of three scholarly resources in addition to the course textbook.
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Running head: DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES IN THE COUNSELING PROFESSION
Decision-Making Processes in the Counseling Profession
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Introduction
The current counseling landscape is demanding and one that is dominated by high levels
of accountability. Nowadays, counselors rely on research to make sound and crucial decisions
regarding the counseling profession. The primary motive is to improve intervention effectiveness
through the use of safe, effective and successfully proven approaches. Counseling focuses on the
outcome rather than early humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive theoretical traditions (Sexton,
1999). Counselors will, therefore, exercise their decision-making skills to choose the best
evidence-based treatment approach that will yield the best results. This paper explores the use of
research in decision making to ensure that the safest, most effective and successfully proven
strategies are deployed in the counseling profession to help a client recoup.
How Qualitative and Quantitative Research Reports Guide the Decision-Making Process
There had been a widespread debate regarding the application of qualitative and
quantitative research strategies in social sciences such as psychology. While some researchers
will consider using one approach at a time, others will prefer combining both approaches with
the hopes of achieving the best outcome. Qualitative research is exploratory and investigative
(Wisdom et al., 2012). Although the findings and the results of qualitative research can neither
be used to make conclusions or generalizations, qualitative reports give a deeper understanding
of any realizable concept or theory and the underlying reasons. They provide insight and
generate ideas which are crucial in the decision-making process.
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