MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELING AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Foundational Resources for Preparing for the
COPS Written Doctoral Qualifying Examinations
Spring, 2008
The faculty prepared this list to help provide some guidance for students who are preparing for
the COPS DQE. This list is offered to guide students to resources which the faculty believes are
helpful in preparing for the exam, but it is not offered as a definitive list of the important
publications in the field or as a list of ‘required readings’ for the exam. Students need to know
that some highly important publications may not appear on the list at all—in fact, important
recent publications are unlikely to appear on this list because it is updated just once per year. In
developing the list, the faculty has also asked students who recently took the exam for their input
regarding the references which they found most useful in preparing for the exam.
Statistics, Research Design, and Measurement
Anastasi, A., & Urbina, S. (1997). Psychological testing. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
Bergin, A. E., & Garfield, S. L. (1994). Handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change
(4 ed.). New York: Wiley. Chpts. 2 and 3 particularly.
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Creswell, J. W. (2002). Educational Research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating
quantitative and qualitative research. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall. Particularly
chpts. 14 – 16 on qualitative research methods.
Gelso, C. J., Dolliver, R. H., & Wampold, B. E. (1987). Special issues: Quantitative
foundations of counseling psychology research. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 34, 363-489.
Grimm, L. G., & Yarnold, P. R. (1995). Reading and understanding multivariate
statistics (4th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Grimm, L. G., & Yarnold, P. R. (2000). Reading and understanding more multivariate
statistics (4th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Heppner, P.P., Kivlighan, D.M. Jr., & Wampold, B.E. (1999). Research design in
counseling (2nd ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Hinkle, D. E., Wiersma, W., & Jurs, S. G. (1998). Applied statistics for the behavioral
sciences (4th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
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Thomas, J. C., & Hersen, M. (2003). Understanding research in clinical and counseling
psychology. Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah: New Jersey.
Thompson, B. (2002). “Statistical,” “practical,” and “clinical”: How many kinds of
significance do counselors need to consider? Journal of Counseling and Development, 80, 64-71.
Nunnally, J. C., & Bernstein, I. H. (1994). Psychometric theory (3rd ed.). New York:
McGraw-Hill.
ADDITIONAL READINGS INCLUDE CURRENT LISTINGS FROM THE SYLLABI FOR
EDPS 321, 322, and 333.
Psychological Foundations and Development
American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental
disorders (4th ed.-text revision). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Berk. L. E (2001). Development through the life-span. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Beutler, L.E., & Malik, M.L. (2002). Rethinking the DSM: A Psychological Perspective.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Nichols, M. P., & Schwartz, R. C. (2004). Family therapy: Concepts and methods (6th
ed.) Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Parke, R. D., Ornstein, P. A., Reiser, J. J., Zahn-Waxler, C. (Eds) (1994). A century of
developmental psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Ponterotto, J. G., Casas, J. M., Suzuki, L. A., & Alexander, C. M. (Eds.). (2001).
Handbook of multicultural counseling (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sue, D. W., & Sue, S. (1998). Counseling the culturally different (2nd ed.). New York:
Wiley.
ADDITIONAL READINGS INCLUDE CURRENT LISTINGS FROM THE SYLLABI FOR
EDPS 266, COUN 219, 230, COPS 268.
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Psychological Assessment and Intervention
American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental
disorders (4th ed.-text revision). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
Garfield, S., & Bergin, A. (1994). Handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change (4th
Ed.). New York: Wiley. (Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8).
Groth-Marnat, G. (1999). Handbook of psychological assessment (3rd ed.). New York:
Wiley.
Gysbers, N. C., Heppner, M. J., & Johnston, J. A. (2003). Career counseling: Process,
issues and techniques (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Hill, C. C. (2004). Helping skills: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action (2nd ed.).
Washington, D.C.: APA.
Johnson, S. L. (1997). Therapist’s Guide to Clinical Intervention: The 1-2-3’s of
Treatment Planning. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Prochaska, J. O., & Norcross, J. C. (2003). Systems of psychotherapy: A transtheoretical
analysis (5th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Sattler, J. M. (2001). Assessment of Children: Cognitive Applications, Fourth Edition.
San Diego, CA: Jerome M. Sattler, Publisher, Inc.
Seligman, L. (1998). Selecting effective treatments: A comprehensive, systematic guide to
treating mental disorders. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Teyber, E. (2006). Interpersonal process in psychotherapy: An integrative model (5th
ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks Cole.
Walsh, W.B., & Osipow, S.H. (1995). Handbook of Vocational Psychology: Theory,
Research, and Practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Wampold, B. E. (2001). The Great Psychotherapy Debate. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Wampold, B. E., Lichtenberg, J. W., Waehler, C. A. (2002). Principles of empirically
supported interventions in counseling psychology. Counseling Psychologist, 30, 197-217.
Yalom, I. D. (1995). The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fourth Edition.
New York: Basic Books.
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ADDITIONAL READINGS INCLUDE CURRENT LISTINGS FROM THE SYLLABI FOR
COUN 216, 217, 218, 222, 233, 269, COPS 320, 321, 369.
Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues
American Psychological Association. (2002). Ethical principles of psychologists and
code of conduct. American Psychologist, 57, 1060-1073.
Bersoff, D.N. (Ed.). (2003). Ethical conflicts in psychology (3rd ed.). Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.
Brown, S.D., & Lent, R. W. (2000). Handbook of Counseling Psychology. New York: J.
Wiley.
Fisher, C.B. (2003). Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide for Psychologists.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Keith-Speigel, P., & Koocher, G.P. (1998). Ethics in psychology: Professional standards
and cases (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
O’Donohue, W., & Ferguson, K. (2003). Handbook of professional ethics for
psychologists. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
ADDITIONAL READINGS INCLUDE CURRENT LISTINGS FROM THE SYLLABI FOR
COUN 269, COPS 283, 369.
Articles relevant to the above topics published during the last three years in the following
journals:
American Psychologist
Journal of Counseling Psychology
The Counseling Psychologist
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
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