Family therapy research.

Abstract

(from the book) focus on research about clinically meaningful processes and clinical populations / taking the position that we must read the literature for a "preponderance of evidence" and then draw reasonable conclusions, [the authors] develop a comparative analysis of different types of marital and family therapy explore the effectiveness of the different types of marital and family therapy with specific problems, such as alcoholism, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and behavior disorders in children and adolescents / describe how some traditions in marital treatment are being challenged / note that research supports the wisdom of the blurring of definitional boundaries that is occurring today in the field of both marital and family therapy / stress that tensions between approaches can be positive and that alternative voices can help prevent complacency in established intervention models, (from the chapter) using [A. Gurman's 1986 study of 47 reviews published from 1970-1986] as a starting point, . . . examine subsequent major reviews of marital and/or family therapy to discern patterns of conclusions / also examine major reviews of the treatment literature for specific syndromes that include marital or family therapy / add a review of the published metaanalyses that focus on marital and family therapy (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)