2nd Edition
Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research
Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research provides an accessible, understandable primer to advanced clinical research methods and statistics, all with the purpose of advancing therapy effectiveness and improving client care.
This fully revised new edition is designed to help readers produce, consume, and understand research, keeping up to date with the latest developments in the field.
Accessibly written with marriage and family therapists and researchers in mind, the chapters in the book address the changes in the research landscape of family therapy research, including new research designs, methods, and statistical techniques that are now considered best practice. Contributing authors share their wisdom on a wide variety of topics including randomized controlled trials, qualitative research, cultural adaptation research, and mixed methods research, with new chapters on metaanalysis, multilevel modelling, benchmarking, growth mixture modelling, Bayesian statistics, and more. New information on how to consume as well as produce research is featured, helping readers become informed consumers of journal articles and studies, produce quality, publishable research, and write fundable grant proposals. With further readings lists and online materials for classes, this textbook is essential reading for graduate students in MFT training, as well as MFT and clinical psychology researchers. It will also be an invaluable resource for marriage and family therapists to help them keep abreast of innovations in clinical practice.
Section 1: Foundational Issues
1. Introduction: Seven Principles for Producing High Quality Research
Richard B Miller and Lee N. Johnson
2. Innovations in Measurement in Clinical Research
Jacob Priest
3. "Nothing About Us, Without Us" - Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented and Marginalized Populations in Clinical Eesearch
Katie Heiden-Rootes, Ariel Hooker Jones, and Keri Davis
4. Practice-Based Research: Routine Outcome Monitoring and Practice Research Networks Across Contexts
Shayne R. Anderson, Lee N. Johnson, M. Selenga Gürmen, and Yudum Söylemez
Section 2: Methodologies
5. Randomised Control Trials in Couple and Family Therapy
Andrea K. Wittenborn
6. Alternatives to RCTs: Benchmarking and Propensity Score Analysis
Richard B Miller
7. Task Analysis in Couple and Family Therapies
Zoë Goldstein and Ben Shahar
8. Examining Micro-change in Clinical Populations Using Intensive Longitudinal Approaches
Adam M. Galovan, Jeremy B. Yorgason and Lee N. Johnson
9. Physiological Research in Couple and Family Therapy
Eran Bar-Kalifa, Angela Bradford, and Yonatan Perelman
10. A Qualitative Quick Guide: How to Design and Complete Your First Research Project
Jason B. Whiting and Bria N. Davies
11. Deductive Qualitative Analysis: A Qualitative Method for Theory Testing and Refinement
Stephen T. Fife and Jacob D. Gossner
12. Mixed Methods Research in Couple and Family Therapy
Jody Russon
13. Meta-analysis in Couple and Family Therapy
Jeffrey B. Jackson
14. Cultural Adaptation Research
Kendal Holtrop, Caitlin Edwards, Yaochong (Lucinda) Huang, and Lekie Dwanyen
Section 3: Analysis
15. Applied Statistical Analysis and Interpretation
Lee N. Johnson and Richard B Miller
16. Testing Mediation: Conceptual Foundations and Recommended Analytical Applications
Jared A. Durtschi and Brady C. Eisert
17. All Things in Moderation
Suzanne Bartle-Haring
18. Principles and Applications of Structural Equation Modeling
Matthew E. Jaurequi and Thomas Ledermann
19. Multilevel Modeling and Applications in Couple and Family Therapy
Qiong Wu, Thomas Ledermann, and Lenore M. McWey
20. Latent Class/Profile Analyses
Kayla Reed-Fitzke and Anthony J. Ferraro
21. Growth Modeling and Growth Mixture Modeling
Kirsty L. Soloski
22. Observational Research
Valentín Escudero, Myrna L. Friedlander, Edmund Orlowski, and Sarah Crosky
23. "Our Relationship" vs "My Relationship": Considering Couple-Level Phenomena with Common-Fate and Latent Congruence Models
Adam M. Galovan
24. Bayesian Modeling
Scott A. Baldwin
Biography
Richard B. Miller, PhD, is a Camilla Eyring Kimball professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University, where he teaches in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program. He has taught research methods classes to doctoral and master’s students for over 35 years.
Lee N. Johnson, PhD, is a marriage and family therapy professor at Brigham Young University. Before becoming a faculty member at BYU, he taught at the University of Georgia for 12 years and at Friends University for 3 years. He has taught research methods and statistics to doctoral and master’s students for over 25 years.
