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Family Therapy Practitioners Researching the Reactions of Practitioners to an Outcome Measure
Author(s) -
Stratton Peter,
McGovern Marie,
Wetherell Annette,
Farrington Carol
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2006.tb00722.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , psychology , variety (cybernetics) , project commissioning , measure (data warehouse) , medical education , family medicine , clinical psychology , publishing , medicine , applied psychology , nursing , psychotherapist , computer science , database , artificial intelligence , political science , law
Family therapy is under increasing pressure to use ‘objective’ measures of effectiveness, but there are strong voices in the field objecting to such research. The primary objective of this project was to investigate the acceptability and perceived potential usefulness of a short self‐report questionnaire. A secondary objective was to explore the viability of conducting such research by a group of practitioners who would collaborate primarily through emails. Nine experienced family therapists were interviewed as they worked through the 16 items of a pilot version of the SCORE questionnaire. The recorded interviews were analysed using Template Analysis. The SCORE was found to be generally acceptable for use with clients but the exercise generated information on a variety of concerns about the content of the measure. Beyond its potential as an outcome measure there was considerable interest in how it could be used therapeutically. The operation of the Practitioner Research Network proved functional but indicated some of the difficulties that such networks might encounter.