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The Application of Intensive Longitudinal Methods to Investigate Change: Stimulating the Field of Applied Family Research

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The use of intensive longitudinal methods (ILM)—rapid in situ assessment at micro timescales—can be overlaid on RCTs and other study designs in applied family research. Particularly, when done as part of a multiple timescale design—in bursts over macro timescales—ILM can advance the study of the mechanisms and effects of family interventions and processes of family change. ILM confers measurement benefits in accurately assessing momentary and variable experiences and captures fine-grained dynamic pictures of time-ordered processes. Thus, ILM allows opportunities to investigate new research questions about intervention effects on within-subject (i.e., within-person, within-family) variability (i.e., dynamic constructs) and about the time-ordered change process that interventions induce in families and family members beginning with the first intervention session. This paper discusses the need and rationale for applying ILM to family intervention evaluation, new research questions that can be addressed with ILM, example research using ILM in the related fields of basic family research and the evaluation of individual-based interventions. Finally, the paper touches on practical challenges and considerations associated with ILM and points readers to resources for the application of ILM.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to especially thank Nilam Ram for his mentorship in intensive longitudinal methods and their analysis and Mark Greenberg for helpful comments on this manuscript. The author also thanks J. Douglas Coatsworth for his accommodation of the author’s intensive longitudinal data collection overlaid on his evaluation of a family preventive intervention. The author gratefully acknowledges the support provided by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (T32 DA0176, F31 DA038409) and the Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center. The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agency. Thanks to Nilam Ram, David Lydon, and Lizbeth Benson for their helpful comments on a previous version of this manuscript.

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Bamberger, K.T. The Application of Intensive Longitudinal Methods to Investigate Change: Stimulating the Field of Applied Family Research. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 19, 21–38 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-015-0194-6

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