Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
J Marital Fam Ther. 2012 Jan;38(1):3-29. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00271.x.
This article serves as an introduction to this third version of research reviews of couple and family therapy (CFT) that have appeared in this journal beginning in 1995. It also presents a methodological and substantive overview of research in couple and family therapy from about 2001/2002 to 2010/2011 (the period covered in this issue), while also making connections with previous research. The article introduces quantitative research reviews of family-based intervention research that appear in this issue on 10 substantive areas including conduct disorder/delinquency, drug abuse, childhood and adolescent disorders (not including the aforementioned), family psycho-education for major mental illness, alcoholism, couple distress, relationship education, affective disorders, interpersonal violence, and chronic illness. The paper also introduces the first qualitative research paper in this series, as well as a paper that highlights current methodologies in meta-analysis. The first part of this article rates the 10 content areas on 12 dimensions of methodological strength for quantitative research and makes generalizations about the state of quantitative methodology in CFT. The latter part of the papers summarizes and makes comments on the substantive findings in the 12 papers in this issue, as well as on the field as a whole.
本文作为自 1995 年开始在本期刊登的第三版夫妻和家庭治疗（CFT）研究综述的介绍。它还对 2001/2002 年至 2010/2011 年（本期涵盖的时期）的夫妻和家庭治疗研究进行了方法学和实质性的概述，同时也与以前的研究建立了联系。本文介绍了本期关于 10 个实质性领域的基于家庭的干预研究的定量研究综述，包括行为障碍/犯罪、药物滥用、儿童和青少年障碍（不包括上述障碍）、重大精神疾病的家庭心理教育、酗酒、夫妻困扰、关系教育、情感障碍、人际暴力和慢性疾病。本文还介绍了该系列中的第一篇定性研究论文，以及一篇强调荟萃分析中当前方法的论文。本文的第一部分根据 12 个定量研究方法维度对 10 个内容领域进行评分，并对 CFT 中的定量方法状态进行了概括。本文的后一部分总结并评论了本期 12 篇论文以及整个领域的实质性发现。
