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The Devil is in the Detail: Clinicians, Academics and Researchers Resolving the Problems of Clinical Research
Author(s) -
Sanders Catherine M.,
Kettler Lisa J.,
Best Nicole T.,
Winefield Helen R.,
Robinson Malcolm
Publication year - 2007
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 - 10.1375/anft.28.4.185
Subject(s) - alliance , session (web analytics) , family therapy , psychology , clinical practice , private practice , psychotherapist , process (computing) , outcome (game theory) , therapeutic relationship , public relations , engineering ethics , medical education , medicine , nursing , political science , family medicine , business , computer science , engineering , mathematics , mathematical economics , advertising , law , operating system
The difficulties associated with conducting valid family therapy research within a clinical practice discourage many potential researchers. This article will describe collaboration between a group of academics, researchers and clinicians who decided to explore the process and efficacy of systemic family therapy conducted within a working private practice. The specific questions we are addressing are, whether the requests clients bring to their first session of therapy can be reliably classified by practitioners, whether these requests change over time, and whether the nature of the request is associated with therapist and client ratings of therapeutic outcome. Additional questions about the form and nature of the therapeutic alliance as experienced by both client and practitioner are also being explored. This paper will map the passage of the work from inception to its current state where over 140 clients are active participants. In doing so attention will be paid to the obstacles encountered: practical, financial and ethical, and the solutions devised to address these.