III. Discussion of Methodology and Substantive Findings

Riskin, Jules; Faunce, Elaine E.

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1970.01740300047006

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“…On the other hand many family researchers have done their work in nontherapy conditions and it is difficult to apply this work to therapy (Lewis et al, 1976;Riskin and Faunce, 1970). At the Tavistock Clinic Department for Children and Parents, a group of practising family therapists sought to develop a practical and reliable method of evaluating our own therapy.…”

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Guidelines for clinicians considering family therapy research

Campbell

Carteret

1984

Journal of Family Therapy

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This paper is written by cliniciansfor clinicians who are thinking about or planning to evaluate family therapy.The basic premise is that to be successful a research project must be built from the beginning on a very solid foundation. This foundation is built from a careful consideration of various research problems which are interrelated yet which can be solved when addressed in a particular sequence. The paper describes eight stages which must be followed in any research project. The authors illustrate these stages with examples from their own experience with a family therapy process research study lasting five years. This project did not produce reliable results, but the authors learnt important lessons about such things as the way a particular theory may lead a researcher to select data which cannot be reliably observed; and the way in which practical constraints can erode the reliability of the outcome. Discussion of why and where the project went wrong offers direction and warnings for the prospective clinician/ researcher.

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Guidelines for clinicians considering family therapy research

Campbell

Carteret

1984

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…Such findings can offer critical leads that can be tested in future studies or used to refine the FTBS. A more liberal level of significance is particularly justified in the initial tests of a new coding system's validity (18).…”

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The Family Therapist Behavior Scale (FTBS): Development and Evaluation of a Coding System

Pinsof

1979

Family Process

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This study evaluated the validity and reliability of a new coding system--The Family Therapist Behavior Scale (FTBS)--that was designed to identify and study clinically relevant verbal behaviors of short-term, problem-oriented family therapists. Validity was assessed by testing the scale's ability to discriminate significant, predicted differences between the in-therapy behaviors of eight beginning family therapists conducting observed interviews and eight advanced family therapists conducting supervisory interviews. All of the sessions, which were initial interviews, were videotaped. Two coders rated three five-minute samples from each of the 16 tapes with the FTBS. The validity results supported over 50 per cent of the 16 research hypotheses. The reliability analysis, based on the actual study data, indicated that the interrater reliability of the 19 category FTBS differed from chance at less than the .001 level of significance. The implications of these findings are examined and future research directions are identified.

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“…Several coding methods can be distinguished besides the coding of ongoing interaction used with the original Bales system. For example, coding can be done from audiotapes (7, 8, 15, 16, 22, 44, 45), from videotapes (1, 2), from typescripts made from tapes (27, 32, 33, 38), or from tapes and type‐script in the “tape‐typescript” method identified and used by Waxler and Mishler (42) and by others (26, 30, 31).…”

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“…The basic definition of the speech is: all the words spoken by a single speaker from the time he starts to speak until he stops. The speech is the unit in Singer and Wynne's (38) work on communication deviances and is used by Riskin and Faunce (30, 31) and by others (7, 32, 33, 39, 40). Some investigators refer to this unit as the “statement,”“utterance,” or “message”.…”

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“…Family researchers working with interaction typescripts often refer to the necessity of separating unitizing and coding into separate operations in order to achieve acceptable levels of coding agreement. This strategy has resulted in the construction of a number of reliable coding schemes, including those of Singer and Wynne (38), Mishler and Waxler (27), and Riskin and Faunce (30, 31). It is crucial in the development of these refined observation procedures that disagreement over the limits of an interaction unit can be separated from disagreement about how a single unit should be coded.…”

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A Scheme for Specifying Interaction Units

Schultz

1975

Family Process

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The specification of units is an important issue in any family interaction research in which samples of communication are coded. This paper first reviews the methods investigators have used to cope with this problem and then outlines a new Interaction Unitizing Scheme for preparing type‐scripts using the “speech” as the interaction unit. Subsequently, coding can be done directly from these unitized transcripts, or they can be used to define units when coding from audio or videotape. Reliability methods are outlined, and data are presented indicating that the unitizing scheme has high inter‐coder reliability.

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III. Discussion of Methodology and Substantive Findings

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Guidelines for clinicians considering family therapy research

Guidelines for clinicians considering family therapy research

The Family Therapist Behavior Scale (FTBS): Development and Evaluation of a Coding System

A Scheme for Specifying Interaction Units

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