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

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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 provide a more realistic assessment of the intervention's effectiveness in a real-world setting. This approach would also allow for a larger and more diverse sample, increasing the generalizability of the results. Conducting the study in the community also reduces the artificiality of the laboratory setting and may increase the ecological validity of the findings.

If You Wanted to Conduct an Effectiveness Study of Integrative