Research Methods In Family Therapy

Douglas H. Sprenkle, Ph.D., is Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Purdue University. He was Editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy from 1990-1996. He has received several major professional honors including the Osborne Award for excellence in teaching from the National Council on Family Relations and the Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Sprenkle has served on the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education and is an Approved Supervisor and Fellow in AAMFT. This is his fourth book. Sidney M. Moon, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Research at Purdue University and the director of research for the Gifted Education Resource Institute. She is also a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and has her own part-time private practice. She has taught graduate-level courses in social science research methodology in which she emphasizes a balance between qualitative, quantitative, and mixed approaches. For the past five years, she has been an active promoter and developer of multimethodological approaches to family therapy research. Her research interests include the development and evaluation of school programs for gifted and talented children and for gifted children with other exceptionalities such as attention deficit disorder, and family therapy with families of the gifted.

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.