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Unit 1 Introduction to Counselling and Family Therapy Research

1. What are the characteristics of good research? 

Following are the characteristics of good research: 

i) Objectivity, 

ii) Generality, 

iii) Verifiability, and 

iv) Predictability. 

2. What are the types of research? 

Two types of research are: 

i) Pure or basic research, and 

ii) Applied research. 

3. Define research and purpose of conducting research. 

• Research is a systematized effort to gain new knowledge
• The purpose of research is to discover the answers to questions through the application of scientific procedure.

4. Why it is important to conduct research in the field of family therapy? 

• To provide knowledge that will permit the counsellor to achieve the goal by the most effective method. 
• Research indicates scientific and inductive thinking. 
• Research is important in formation of new policies.

5. What are concepts that form the research process?

• Concept is an abstraction of observed things, events or phenomena. Every 
• science develops its own concept for communicating its findings. So the theoretical system of a science can be referred to as a conceptual system. 

Important Points 

i) An ecological perspective is emerging in social sciences.