Abstract:
:In Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT), as in many clinical disciplines, concern surfaces about the clinician/researcher gap. This gap includes a lack of accessible, practical research for clinicians. MFT clinical research often borrows from the medical tradition of randomized control trials, which typically use linear methods, or follow procedures distanced from "real-world" therapy. We review traditional research methods and their use in MFT and propose increased use of methods that are more systemic in nature and more applicable to MFTs: process research, dyadic data analysis, and sequential analysis. We will review current research employing these methods, as well as suggestions and directions for further research.
journal_name
J Marital Fam Therjournal_title
Journal of marital and family therapyauthors
Oka M,Whiting Jdoi
10.1111/j.1752-0606.2012.00339.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-01-01 00:00:00pages
17-27issue
1eissn
0194-472Xissn
1752-0606journal_volume
39pub_type
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