If You Wanted to Conduct an Effectiveness Study of Integrative

question 34

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to conduct an effectiveness study of integrative behavioral couples therapy, what would you do?

• A) bring couples into the lab to receive treatment from graduate-level supervised therapists and evaluate change in relationship satisfaction from pre- to post-treatment
• B) bring couples into the lab to receive either integrative behavioral couples therapy or emotionally focused couples therapy and compare outcomes in the two treatments
• C) train therapists in the community to deliver integrative behavioral couples therapy and compare the outcomes to couples who receive treatment as usual in the community
• D) train therapists in the community to deliver integrative behavioral couples therapy in a laboratory-based study and compare treatment outcomes to those obtained with graduate-level therapists