Who Reads Outcome Research?

The Divide Between “Evidenced‐Based” Approaches and Practitioners of Traditional Theories of Family Therapy

“…The disconnect we see relates to the fact that (a) family therapists realize, on some level, that evidence of treatment success is valuable; (b) they understand that they should keep up with the effectiveness literature; but (c) they simultaneously have learned to rely largely on their own timeand experience-tested clinical practices and not the evidence-based therapy literature (Mussel et al, 2000;Rain et al, 2004;Stewart & Chambless, 2007;VonRanson & Robinson, 2006;Ko suti c et al, 2012).…”

“…In their review of the literature, Ko suti c, Sanderson, and Anderson (2012) found that in the past three decades, only three published studies prior to their survey offered information addressing family therapists' consumption of outcome research in their field. Hertlein, Lambert-Shute, and Piercy (2009) examined journal reading habits of a small sample of clinicians (n = 42) and explored specific barriers to reading research-related articles.…”