Process
These studies research therapeutic change processes, addressing the ‘how does it work’ question, and can be considered to produce practice-based evidence. These include ‘direct’ methods (coding or rating therapy interviews) and ‘indirect’ methods (asking therapists or clients what they think).
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Direct
Bowen, C., Stratton, P. and Madill, A. (2005) Psychological functioning in families that blame: from blaming events to theory integration. Journal of Family Therapy, 27(4):309–329.
Burck, C., Frosh, S., Strickland-Clark, L. and Morgan, K. (1998) The process of enabling change: a study of therapist interventions in family therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 20: 253-267.
Coutre, S.J. and Sutherland, O.A. (2004) Investigating change: compatible research and practice. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 23: 3-17.
Diamond, G.S. & Liddle, H. A (1999) Transforming negative parent-adolescent interactions: from impasse to dialogue. Family Process, 38: 5-26.
Diamond G.S and Diamond, G.M. (2001) Family therapy process research: state of the science. In H. Liddle, R. Levant and J. Bray (eds) Family Psychology Intervention Science. Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Frosh, S., Burck, C., Strickland-Clark, L. and Morgan, K. (1996) Engaging with change. A process study of family therapy.Journal of Family Therapy, 18(2): 141-161.
Gehart, D., Ratlif, D.A. and Lyle, R.R. (2001) Qualitative research in family therapy: a substantive and methodological review. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 27(2): 261-74.
Guilfoyle, M. (2002). Rhetorical processes in therapy: the bias for self-containment. Journal of Family Therapy, 24(3): 298-316.
Heatherington, L., Friedlander, M. L., and Greenberg, L. (2005) Change process research in couple and family therapy: methodological challenges and opportunities. Journal of Family Psychology, 19(1): 18-27.
Higham, J. E., Friedlander, M. L., Escudero, V. and Diamond, G. (2011), Engaging reluctant adolescents in family therapy: an exploratory study of in-session processes of change. Journal of Family Therapy,34(1): 24-52.
Jones, A. (2005) The process of change in parent-infant psychotherapy. Systemic Psychotherapy Doctorate Thesis. Tavistock Library.
Molinari, L., Everri, M. and Fruggeri, L. (2010), Family Microtransitions: Observing the Process of Change in Families with Adolescent Children. Family Process, 49:236–250.
Kogan, S.M and Gale, J.E. (1997) Decentering therapy: textual analysis of a narrative therapy session. Family Process, 36: 101-126.
Kazdin, A.E. (2009) Understanding how and why psychotherapy leads to change. Psychotherapy Research, 19(4): 418 – 428.
Pinsof, W.M and Wynne, L.C. (2000) Toward process research: closing the gap between family therapy practice and research. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 26: 1-8.
Roy-Chowdhury, S. (2003) Knowing the unknowable: what constitutes evidence in family therapy? Journal of Family Therapy, 25: 64-85.
Roy-Chowdhury, S. (2006) How is the therapeutic relationship talked into being? Journal of Family Therapy. 28(2): 153-174.
Seltzer, M. and Seltzer, W.R. (2004) Co-texting, chronotype and ritual: a Bakhtinian framing of talk in therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 26: 358-383.
Sexton, T. L., Ridley, C. R., & Kleiner, A. J. (2004) Beyond common factors: multilevel-process models of therapeutic change in marriage and family therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 30: 131-149.
Tolan, P.H., Hanish, L.D., McKay, M.M. and Dickey, M.H. (2002) Evaluating process in child and family interventions: aggression prevention as an example. Journal of Family Psychology, 16: 220-236.
