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EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CONJOINT TREATMENT OF ALCOHOL‐COMPLICATED MARRIAGES: CLINICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES *
Author(s) -
Zweben Allen,
Pearlman Shelly
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1983.tb01484.x
Subject(s) - spouse , intervention (counseling) , perspective (graphical) , psychology , marital therapy , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , applied psychology , conjoint analysis , management science , psychiatry , computer science , sociology , preference , engineering , artificial intelligence , anthropology , economics , microeconomics
This paper addresses a number of clinical and methodological issues that have arisen in conducting the Marital Systems Study, a research project evaluating the efficacy of systems‐oriented conjoint treatment with couples in which one spouse is abusing alcohol. These include: (1) standardizing and monitoring the intervention; (2) developing and maintaining an interactional perspective on the alcohol‐related difficulties; (3) selecting an appropriate control group; (4) offering conjoint treatment as the primary therapeutic intervention; and (5) developing comprehensive, valid and reliable assessment/follow‐up procedures. The manner in which the Marital Systems Study has attempted to resolve these important issues, rather than the outcomes emerging from the study, constitutes the focus of this paper.