Part I. Introduction -- -- Pluralism, diversity, and sophistication in family therapy research / Douglas H. Sprenkle and Fred P. Piercy -- A graduate student guide to conducting research in marriage and family therapy / Lenore M. McWey, Ebondy Joy James, and Sara A. Smock -- -- Part II. Qualitative Methods -- -- Let's get grounded : family therapy research and grounded theory / Silvia Echevarria-Doan and Carolyn Y. Tubbs -- The use of phenomenology for family therapy research : the search for meaning / Carla M. Dahl and Pauline Boss -- Focus groups in family therapy research / Fred P. Piercy and Katherine M. Hertlein -- Action research methods in family therapy / Taj J. Mendenhall and William J. Doherty -- Computer-aided qualitative data analysis software : general issues for family therapy researchers / Jennifer I. Matheson -- Bridging research : using ethnography to inform clinical practice / Carolyn Y. Tubbs and Linda M. Burton -- Feminist autoethnography / Katherine R. Allen and Fred P. Piercy -- Performance methodology : constructing discourses and discursive practices in family therapy research / Saliha Bava -- Future directions for qualitative methods / Ronald J. Chenail -- -- Part III. Mixed Methods -- -- Survey research in marriage and family therapy / Thorana S. Nelson and David D. Allred -- The Delphi method / Linda Stone Fish and Dean M. Busby -- Task analysis of couple and family change events / Brent Bradley and Susan M. Johnson -- Program evaluation science and family therapy / Jay A. Mancini [and others] -- -- Part IV. Quantitative Methods -- -- Clinical trials in marriage and family therapy research / Kevin P. Lyness, Stephanie R. Walsh, and Douglas H. Sprenkle -- Meta-analysis in family therapy research / Karen S. Wampler, Alan Reifman, and Julianne M. Serovich -- Economic evaluation methodology for family therapy outcome research / David P. MacKinnon -- Approaches to prediction : correlation, regression, and classification techniques / Douglas K. Snyder and Laurel F. Mangrum -- -- Part V. Advanced Quantitative Methods -- -- Multilevel growth modeling in the context of family research / Margaret K. Keiley [and others] -- Covariance structure analysis : from path analysis to structural equation modeling / Margaret K. Keiley [and others].
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Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this widely adopted text and professional reference reflects significant recent changes in the landscape of family therapy research.