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 to some couples and compare the outcomes to other 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

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Training therapists in the community to deliver integrative behavioral couples therapy and comparing outcomes to couples who receive treatment as usual in the community would be the most effective way to measure the real-world effectiveness of the treatment. It takes into account naturalistic factors that may occur in community treatment settings, such as therapist experience and client population. A laboratory-based study with graduate-level therapists may not be representative of the actual effectiveness in real-life situations. Comparing integrative behavioral couples therapy to emotionally focused couples therapy may also not be the best choice as it is not the focus of the study.

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