Qualitative Research in Family Therapy: Publication Trends From 1980 to 1999

Faulkner, Rhonda A.; Klock, Kathryn; Gale, Jerry

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2002.tb01174.x

Cited by 28 publications

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“…Very little qualitative study of research in marital and family therapy has focused on child abuse (Faulkner, Klock, & Gale, 2002). This study focused on participants from two underrepresented groups: Latino families and male victims of sexual abuse.…”

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confidence: 99%

Making Sense of Abuse: Case Studies in Sibling Incest

et al. 2006

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This case study focused on the process of making sense of abuse in two Latino families experiencing sibling incest. Participants included five male children ranging in age from 8 to 15 that were members of two families dealing with the issue of sibling incest. The purpose of this study was to build understanding of how families experience sibling incest and its role in their families. Clinical data from therapy sessions was analyzed to reveal that families made sense of the incest in different ways including abuse as normal and abuse as a mistake. Central concepts that explained how the families responded to the sibling incest included (1) level of family cohesion, (2) role of secrecy, and (3) view of outside systems. The findings suggest that treatment needs to include an in-depth assessment regarding these issues.

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Section: Future Directionsmentioning

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Making Sense of Abuse: Case Studies in Sibling Incest

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“…The start year was decided based on the jump in publication of qualitative articles in the early 1990s (Faulkner et al 2002). The three top refereed journals examined, included Contemporary Family Therapy (CFT), Family Process (FP) and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT).…”

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“…The field of marriage and family therapy has seen an increase in qualitative research (Faulkner et al 2002). Within this research base, interviews have been the most frequently utilized method (Gehart et al 2001).…”

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Qualitative Research in Marriage and Family Therapy: Who is in the Interview?

Beitin

2007

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Qualitative interviews are a rich means of gathering information from families. The qualitative interviewer has a choice of interviewing individual family members, multiple family members at the same time, or a combination. The configuration of interviewees is a choice guided by the epistemology of the researcher, research aims, and questions. This article reviews the literature on interviewing different configurations of family members. A content analysis was conducted on articles in the marriage and family therapy literature from 1990 to 2005. Over half of the articles were conducted with individual family members separate from their families. This finding is discussed in the context of the decision regarding whom to interview.

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“…One suggestion for studies of a qualitative nature would be grounded theory designs, targeted toward establishing clear theory on how a given model of MFT is targeting change from the client's perspective (Faulkner et al 2002). Structured interviews could be conducted cross-sectionally or longitudinally wherein clients being treated for trauma report what the therapist did that was helpful in moments of perceived change, especially moments the clients experienced as physiologically intense.…”

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Evaluating the Utility of MFT Models in the Treatment of Trauma: Implications for Affect Regulation

Witting¹,

Jensen

Brown

2016

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss polyvagal theory as a theoretical foundation for helping clinicians more effectively treat clients who have experienced major trauma. More specifically, we emphasize that through the use of both modern and post-modern models, marriage and family therapists may use emotion regulation strategies to assist clients in overcoming the negative repercussions of traumatic events. We suggest that the nature of emotional arousal which accompanies trauma alters the physical process by which the body regulates future affective stimuli in ways that are potentially detrimental to human relationships. We then offer a discussion of how a selection of MFT models contain strategies that promote reconnection to self and others that should be utilized with greater precision, ultimately to target the physiological symptoms of trauma-altered emotion regulation processes. Finally, we discuss the need for more specific, process-oriented research that integrates cross-disciplinary theory to contribute to a more intricate and useful understanding of the treatment of trauma in the relational context.

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Qualitative Research in Family Therapy: Publication Trends From 1980 to 1999

Cited by 28 publications

References 8 publications

Making Sense of Abuse: Case Studies in Sibling Incest

Making Sense of Abuse: Case Studies in Sibling Incest

Qualitative Research in Marriage and Family Therapy: Who is in the Interview?

Evaluating the Utility of MFT Models in the Treatment of Trauma: Implications for Affect Regulation

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