Overview of interventions for relationship Distress.

Question 1

What is outcome research?

Answer 1

Research that examines the effectiveness of interventions.

Question 2

How is a efficacy study made?

Answer 2

Couples are randomly assigned to a control group or to a type of therapy.

Question 3

How are efficacy studies planned out?

Answer 3

They have a ‘pure intervention’ that is delivered according to a manual that details what is to be done each session

Question 4

What is a Effectiveness study?

Answer 4

Studies of therapy outcomes in real world settings, with no random assignment and clinicians perform ‘treatment as usual’.

Question 5

What are the results from efficacy studies on highly distressed couples and their likelihood of improvement?

Answer 5

• about half of the couples who underwent therapy were recovered and 20% improved
  with changes being maintained for the majority of recovered and improved couples.

Question 6

True or false:

different therapy types have roughly the same level of efficacy.

Answer 6

True.

Question 7

What are the results of effectiveness studies? how do they compare to efficacy studies?

Answer 7

• Success rates are lower than efficacy studies.
• large number of couples drop out of therapy
• treatments for individual difficulties are more effective than treatments of couples difficulties.

Question 8

What is the biggest issue with relationship therapy?

Answer 8

Relationships are hard to treat in the real world.

- may clinicians are not skilled enough to effectively treat them