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TOWARD THE IDENTIFICATION OF VARIABLES FOR EVALUATING FAMILY THERAPY WORKSHOPS *
Author(s) -
Heath Anthony W.,
McKenna Barbara C.,
Atkinson Brent J.
Publication year - 1988
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.1752-0606.1988.tb00746.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , interdependence , identification (biology) , quality (philosophy) , field (mathematics) , psychology , clinical psychology , applied psychology , medical education , medicine , psychotherapist , mathematics , sociology , social science , philosophy , botany , epistemology , pure mathematics , biology
If the field of family therapy is to improve the quality of its continuing education, a useful measurement of workshop quality must be developed. In a preliminary step towards this goal, 14 expert subjects from the field of family therapy were interviewed to identify variables and relationships that can be hypothesized to influence the quality– as assessed by participants –of family therapy workshops. This paper reports the opinions of the subjects, using counts and quotations to convey as much of the raw information as space allows, and presents the methods through which the information was organized by the authors into four categories and 58 (assumed to be interdependent) variables.