How can we conduct treatment outcome research? |
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Authors: | Michael H Miner |
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Institution: | (1) Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family Practice and Community Health, Medical School, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 180, 55454 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Abstract: | The publication of a review of the treatment outcome literature by Furby, Weinrott, and Blackshaw in 1989 raised the issue
of the failure of research to support adequately the efficacy of treatment for sexual offenders. Now, many years after the
publication of Furbyet al., there are still major flaws in the outcome research being conducted which have led certain researchers to conclude that
we still have no empirical evidence on the effectiveness of sexual offender treatment. Specifically, the current literature
has been criticized for reliance on single-group, follow-up only designs and designs that include nonequivalent treatment
and comparison groups. These types of designs fail to provide adequate information about treatment outcome due to threats
to internal validity and construct validity of putative causes and effects. In this paper, suggestions are made as to how
to maximize experimental validity through development of program theories and questions posed about which aspects of treatment
are associated with positive and negative outcomes and with whom our interventions work. |
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Keywords: | outcome research sexual offenders treatment of offenders behavior therapy cognitive therapy study design |
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