Effective
Research
Research
The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
What is research?
Techniques/mechanisms of change that transcend through several models of therapy and create successful outcomes.
What are common factors?
42.2%
What is the amount of research MFTs preform in our field?
The purpose of the research is explained, including what the role would be and how the trial will work.
What is informed consent?
The set of expectations for behavior, emotion, interaction, and communication that establish the rules and norms that govern a family's functioning.
What is Homeostasis?
Category of research: observations, interpretations, grouping of common data, answers "why" questions.
What is qualitative research?
A cooperative working relationship, considered to be an essential aspect of successful therapy.
Research becomes disregarded as irrelevant, challenges the MFT profession as an ethical practice, diminish credibility to third parties.
What are some consequences of the research gap in our field?
An unethical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.
1949 - The founder of attachment theory, a theory at the core of many approaches to family therapy today. Attachment theory suggests that children develop a secure of insecure attachment style based upon the nature of the relationship with their mother or primary mother substitute that will influence behaviors both throughout childhood and into adulthood.
Who is John Bowlby?
Analyzing and evaluating any sources on a specific topic.
What is a literature review?
Made up from theories, supervision, life experience, clinical experience, research.
What is clinical knowledge?
The integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and client values.
What is Evidence-based practice?
Minimize harm, maximize benefits
What is beneficence?
1940s - An American mathematician and philosopher, recognized as a prodigy at a young age for his brilliant intellectual abilities. Spending most of his career as a professor at MIT, developed the framework of cybernetics.
Who is Norbert Weiner?
What is a primary research source?
The extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure.
60 years old
Participants were kept in unsafe, unsanitary, and dehumanizing facilities. Several of them told participants they wanted to leave, but they were refused. The three men who were removed from the study were only allowed to when researchers thought they were too traumatized to safely continue.
What is the Stanford Prison experiment?
Name the theory
Allows us to zoom in and examine the precise ways in which particular systems maintain preservation through communication processes and behavioral organization patterns within the system and between the system and external environment.
What is Cybernetics?
Narrative reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, book reviews, guidelines, commentary
Scientific study within the field of Psychology that focuses on solving problems, curing illnesses, and innovating new technologies.
What is applied research?
The division between psychologists who believe that clinical practice should be heavily informed by empirical studies and those who believe clinical judgment and intuition should be paramount.
What is the scientist-practitioner gap?
The inherently greater power and influence that helping professionals have as compared to the people they help.
What are power differential/power dynamics?
This is the idea that an organism or system can reach a certain end state from a variety of different sources, conditions, and means or from different initial states. For example, Generalized Anxiety Disorder may stem from a biological imbalance, trauma, or existential givens.
What is Equifinality?