This thorough, lively, direct guide to research for human services students and personnel was written with beginning graduate students in mind. Wilkinson and McNeils Research for the Helping Professions focuses on the helping professional as a consumer of research as well as a doer. With the help of this clearly written book, students with little or no background in research will learn to evaluate the research they read and see its application to their own lives and jobs. In addition, the book gives students the guidance they need to conduct research for their graduate programs.