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As a counselor-in-training, you might regard the research aspect of your program of study as a strange bedfellow for your clinical training. Of course, your preliminary interests (depending upon your emphasis area) are to learn how to develop peer-mediation programs for a school district, learn how to address the symptoms of mental illness, understand the various implications for a disability on an individual’s vocational future, or learn how to address roommate relational issues through residence-hall programming. Because you want to learn the essential skill sets to become an effective counselor, it is probably difficult to see how research fits into your academic plan. As you read through the chapters of this book, we hope it becomes clear that research and counseling are integrally intertwined, and that you need research to help you maintain best practices in the world of counseling. Our goal, through this text, is to help you integrate research into the process of building your counseling skills. Through this text, you will be exposed to the foundational principles of research and how they apply to the counseling profession. We will guide you through the various aspects of counseling research and expose you to quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches.