Heather has designed a new treatment for couples in distress.She has conducted several studies in which couples were randomly assigned to receive either her new treatment or another empirically supported treatment.She now wants to look at how her treatment performs when clinical practitioners administer it to couples in the community.In other words,she wants to conduct a(n):
A) clinical trial.
B) effectiveness study.
C) efficacy study.
D) efficacy trial.

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An effectiveness study is the best choice because it evaluates the real-world outcomes of a treatment when implemented by clinical practitioners in the community, rather than in a controlled research setting. A clinical trial and efficacy trial typically refer to controlled studies, while an efficacy study evaluates treatment outcomes under controlled conditions.

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