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Videotaped simulated families as a tool in family therapy outcome research

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Twenty-two therapists who had treated 57 families in brief conjoint family therapy under supervision responded to a videotaped simulated family as if they were treating it. Their responses were audiotaped and coded on a system devised for this study. Positive relationships were found between the ratings of expertise based on the coding system, and independent ratings of the treated families' satisfaction with treatment and the status of the presenting symptoms 6 months after termination. Videotaped simulated families are potentially useful as standardizable methods of revealing individual differences in therapists for family therapy outcome research.

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  1. Jewish General Hospital, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, 4333 Cote St. Catherine Road, H3T 1E2, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    J. J. Sigal PhD. (Research Director)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec

    B. G. Presser

  3. Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

    C. A. Woodward

  4. Thistletown Regional Center for Children and Adolescents, Rexdale, Ontario

    J. Santa-Barbara

  5. Section of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

    N. B. Epstein

  6. Department of Psychiatry at Northwestern University, Akron, Ohio

    S. Levin

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Sigal, J.J., Presser, B.G., Woodward, C.A. et al. Videotaped simulated families as a tool in family therapy outcome research. International Journal of Family Therapy 2, 236–242 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00929448

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