Course Goals and Objectives

The primary goal of this course is to help addiction treatment professionals experience: (1) increased familiarity with basic research terms, issues, concepts, and principles; (2) decreased intimidation to read research articles; (3) increased readership of research articles; (4) increased exposure to effective research-based treatment strategies; and (4) increased application of research-based treatment to clinical work. After completing this course, you should experience the following course objectives:

• Increased understanding of research terms and concepts, and increased knowledge about experimental, quasi-experimental, and nonexperimental research designs



• Increased understanding about research design characteristics that can diminish the ability of a study to determine whether an observed outcome can be attributed to the intervention being evaluated and whether results from a research study can be generalized to other settings or populations



• Increased understanding of the major principles of ethics in research



• Increased understanding about the typical components of research articles and knowledge about what to look for in these components



• Increased familiarity with basic statistics concepts