“…Moving beyond the conflicts about epistemology that can be a block to bringing science to practice, these postmodern clinicians and researchers have begun to look at research methodologies from psychotherapy research that are most compatible with their world view applied to couple and family therapy. Thus, we have seen use of patient-focused research assessing self-reported progress (Sparks & Duncan, 2018), various methods of linguistic analysis (Ong, Barnes, & Buus, 2019;Sutherland, LaMarre, Rice, Hardt, & Le Couteur, 2017) and research centered on physiological and interpersonal processes (Laitila et al, 2019;Seikkula, Karvonen, Kykyri, Penttonen, & Nyman-Salonen, 2018). Most of all, several of these researchers have tapped into the long-standing tradition of psychotherapy process research to look at the what is happening in the therapy process, especially in terms of client and therapist experience (Laitila et al, 2019;Lambert, 2016).…”