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Individual Marital Therapy — Have Reports of your Death been Somewhat Exaggerated?
Author(s) -
Gurman Alan S.,
Kniskern David P.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1986.00051.x
Subject(s) - warrant , marital therapy , certainty , psychology , family therapy , position (finance) , empirical research , psychotherapist , positive economics , economics , epistemology , philosophy , finance , financial economics
In this reply to Wells and Giannetti's critique of our earlier reviews of research in family therapy, we demonstrate that the sense of absolute certainty with which they reappraise and dismiss as useless the studies we reviewed on individual marital therapy is unjustified. We also consider the implications of their critique and the conclusions they derive from it for public policy and clinical practice. Though we acknowledge the appropriateness of certain aspects of their critique, we continue to hold to our original position that, for now, there is ample empirical warrant for considering conjoint therapy to be the treatment of choice for marital problems.