Description
In this widely adopted text and professional reference, leading contributors provide the knowledge needed to design strong qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies; analyze the resulting data; and translate findings into improved practices and programs. Following a consistent format, user-friendly chapters thoroughly describe the various methodologies and illustrate their applications with helpful concrete examples.
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CHAPTER 2. A Graduate Student Guide to Conducting Research in Marriage and Family Therapy
PART II. QUALITATIVE METHODS
CHAPTER 3. Let’s Get Grounded: Family Therapy Research and Grounded Theory
CHAPTER 4. The Use of Phenomenology for Family Therapy Research: The Search for Meaning
CHAPTER 5. Focus Groups in Family Therapy Research
CHAPTER 6. Action Research Methods in Family Therapy
CHAPTER 7. Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software: General Issues for Family Therapy Researchers
CHAPTER 8. Bridging Research: Using Ethnography to Inform Clinical Practice
CHAPTER 9. Feminist Autoethnography
CHAPTER 10. Performance Methodology: Constructing Discourses and Discursive Practices in Family Therapy Research
CHAPTER 11. Future Directions for Qualitative Methods
CHAPTER 12. Survey Research in Marriage and Family Therapy
CHAPTER 13. The Delphi Method
CHAPTER 14. Task Analysis of Couple and Family Change Events
CHAPTER 15. Program Evaluation Science and Family Therapy
PART IV. QUANTITATIVE METHODS
CHAPTER 16. Clinical Trials in Marriage and Family Therapy Research
CHAPTER 17. Meta-Analysis in Family Therapy Research
CHAPTER 18. Economic Evaluation Methodology for Family Therapy Outcome Research
CHAPTER 19. Approaches to Prediction: Correlation, Regression, and Classification Techniques
PART V. ADVANCED QUANTITATIVE METHODS
CHAPTER 20. Multilevel Growth Modeling in the Context of Family Research
CHAPTER 21. Covariance Structure Analysis: From Path Analysis to Structural Equation Modeling