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RESEARCH IN FAMILY THERAPY: A GRADUATE LEVEL COURSE
Author(s) -
Sprenkle Douglas H.,
Piercy Fred P.
Publication year - 1984
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.1752-0606.1984.tb00014.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , unit (ring theory) , graduate students , medical education , field (mathematics) , psychology , research methodology , engineering ethics , psychotherapist , pedagogy , medicine , mathematics education , engineering , population , mathematics , environmental health , pure mathematics
Training in family therapy research must move beyond traditional methods courses. This paper describes a five‐unit course which (a) reviews the fundamentals of research methodology and grounds the student in the history of psychotherapy research in general; (b) gives an overview of family research through detailed analysis of major review articles; (c) covers instrumentation tools and techniques; (d) critically evaluates key investigations in the field; and (e) examines the challenges of the “new epistemologies” for family therapy research. Learning activities are described for each unit that engage the student in such a way that the learning of research might be enjoyable as well as interesting. The paper may also be employed as a guide for self‐study in family therapy research.