Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research: A Focus on Validity and Change - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415710901 ISBN 13: 9780415710909

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Research is vital in moving the field of family therapy forward, but the myriad of possibilities inherent in working with systems and individuals can overwhelm even the most seasoned researcher. Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research is the best resource to address the day-to-day questions that researchers have as they investigate couples and families, and the best source for learning long-term theory and methodology. The contributors of this volume share their wisdom on a wide variety of topics including validity concerns, measuring interpersonal process and relational change, dyadic data analysis (demonstrated through a sample research study), mixed methods studies, and recruitment and retention. The volume contains one of the most detailed descriptions of data collections and covers interviewing, using questionnaires, and observing brain activity.  Also addressed are suggestions to meaningfully reduce cultural bias, to conduct ethical research, and, in the Health Services Research chapter, to examine interventions for clients in various income brackets. A separate, ground-breaking chapter also addresses psychophysiological research in a couple and family therapeutic context. As an added benefit, readers will learn how to become informed consumers of journal articles and studies, how to produce quality, publishable research, and how to write fundable grant proposals. Each chapter provides a clear and detailed guide for students, researchers, and professionals, and as a whole Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research advances the field by teaching readers how to provide evidence that marriage and family therapy not only relieves symptoms, but also effects behavioral change in all family members.

About this title

About the Author

Richard B Miller, PhD, is a faculty member in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program and a Professor and former Director of the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University.

Lee N. Johnson, PhD, is a faculty member in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program and an Associate Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University.

Review

"Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research Briefly comprehensively and succinctly charts the territory of research methods for assessing couple and family therapy. Richard Miller and Lee Johnson have assembled a superb set of authors who illuminate every aspect of research ranging from basic concepts, such as how to develop research ideas and conduct analyses, to more specialized topics such as cultural adaption research and specific technologies. This book should be an essential great resource for graduate courses in family research and a part of every family researcher’s library." -- Jay Lebow, Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Psychology, The Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University

"Drs. Miller and Johnson have produced a book on the state of the research art in marriage and family therapy.  They rightly address the interdependence of family members and the validity of research methods and measurement.  The book’s chapters address a broad swath of content and methodological issues in MFT research.  Where will the MFT field be if we do not embrace the challenge of conducting rigorous research on our cherished interventions that many of us, myself included, believe are beneficial to our patients?  Miller and Johnson’s book should be adopted in MFT programs and inspire junior faculty in their research and guide the next generation of graduate students to take up the cause." -- Cleveland G. Shields, Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy, Purdue University, Indiana, USA

"This book should be required reading for all family therapy graduate students and faculty members interested in cutting edge systemic research methods.... Each chapter, written by preeminent scholars, moves the field forward in a profound way; we have needed this book for some time and I’m delighted that Miller and Johnson have decided to take on the responsibility for making this material accessible for family scholars."  - Sandra M. Stith, PhD. Professor and Program Director, Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Kansas State University

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415710901
• ISBN 13: 9780415710909
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 466
• Editor: Miller Richard B, Johnson Lee N.