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Thematic review of family therapy journals 2011
- Author:
- CARR Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Therapy, 34(4), November 2012, pp.431-451.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In 2011 there was some expansion of the evidence base for systemic practice with child-focused and adult-focused problems, couples problems and family therapy conducted in medical and military contexts. There were important developments in the areas of integrative systemic practice models, competency-based training and real world research on the cost effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of family therapy. In this article the contents of the principal English-language family therapy journals published in 2011 are reviewed under these headings: child-focused problems, adult-focused problems, couples therapy, medical family therapy, military family therapy, theory, research, training, the new Journal of Couple and Family Psychology and Human Systems twenty-first anniversary.
The Beavers, McMaster and Circumplex clinical rating scales: a study of their sensitivity, specificity and discriminant validity
- Authors:
- DRUMM Michael, CARR Alan, FITZGERALD Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Therapy, 22(2), May 2000, pp.225-238.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In order to assess the sensitivity and specificity of clinical rating scales from the Beavers, McMaster and Circumplex models of family functioning, videotapes of sixty families engaging in a standardized family task interview were rated using the three rating scales. The sixty families included twenty containing a child with an emotional disorder, twenty containing a child with a mixed disorder of emotions and conduct, and twenty in which none of the children presented with clinically significant difficulties. On the rating scales, the Beavers and McMaster models showed particularly high levels of sensitivity in detecting clinical cases, whereas the Circumplex rating scale was particularly good at classifying non-clinical cases accurately.