Research Methods in Family Therapy

Part I: Introduction Sprenkle, Moon, Toward Pluralism in Family Therapy Research. Part II: Qualitative Methods: Naturalistic Research Newfield, Sells, Smith, Newfield and Newfield, Ethnographic Research Methods: Creating a Clinical Science of the Humanities. Rafuls, Moon, Grounded Theory Methodology in Family Therapy. Social Constructionist Research Boss, Dahl, Kaplan, The Use of Phenomenology for Family Therapy Research: The Search for Meaning. Critical Theory Research Rediger, Critical Theory Research: The Emancipatory Interest in Family Therapy. Avis, Turner, Feminist Lenses in Family Therapy Research: Gender, Politics and Science. Focus Group Evaluations Piercy, Nickerson, Focus Groups in Family Therapy Research. Part III Quantitative Methods: Design and Measurement Dickey, Quantitative Design in Family Therapy: Insider Hints on Getting Started. Snyder, Rice, Methodological Issues and Strategies in Scale Development. Experimental Research Lyness, Sprenkle, Experimental Methods in Marital and Family Therapy Research. Dickey, Methods for Single-Case Experiments in Family Therapy. Wampler, Serovich, Meta-Analysis in Family Therapy Research. Relational/Predictive Research Snyder, Mangrum, Approaches to Prediction: Correlation, Regression, and Discriminant Analysis. Volk, Flori, Structural Equation Modeling. Cost Effectiveness Evaluations Pike-Urlacher, MacKinnon, Piercy, Cost-Effectiveness Research in Family Therapy. Intensive Research Moon, Trepper, Case Study Research. Greenberg, Heatherington, Friedlander, The Events-Based Approach to Couple and Family Therapy Research. Bischoff, McKeel, Moon, Sprenkle, Systematically Developing Therapeutic Techniques: Applications of Research and Development. Survey Research Nelson, Survey Research in Marriage and Family Therapy. Fish, Busby, The Delphi Method. Program Evaluations Leber, St Peters, Markman, Program Evaluation Research: Applications to Marital and Family Therapy.