Performance-Based Family Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Measurable Change

In this book, Charles Fishman integrates results-based accountability (RBA) into structural family therapy, aiming to enhance performance tracking and treatment outcomes for clinicians and socially disadvantaged families. It provides practical tools and introduces the community resource specialist to address social issues.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 08 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In this groundbreaking work, Charles Fishman seamlessly integrates and expands results-based accountability (RBA) into the framework of structural family therapy. Working in collaboration with the founder of RBA, Mark Friedman, this approach seeks to revolutionize the field of family therapy by enabling clinicians to effectively and efficiently track their client's performance. The book begins by examining the historical roots of family therapy and exploring why challenges in the field, alternative methods, and the reliance on evidence-based medicine (EBM) have hindered the full flourishing of family therapy as expected. It then delves into how RBA can be seamlessly integrated into intensive structural therapy (IST), with chapters detailing how RBA can be applied in various contexts, such as treating eating disorders, supervision, and how it can be utilized to transform the clinical contexts of professionals.

Relevant and practical, the book also introduces the community resource specialist to assist in the treatment of socially disadvantaged families. Additionally, it includes helpful appendices and tracking tools to empower clinicians to track their data and select treatment models that yield the best outcomes. This innovative approach provides transparent and measurable outcomes for both clinicians and training family therapists, contributing to elevating family therapy to the pinnacle of psychotherapy. It is an essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students of family therapy, course leaders, and all clinicians working in professional contexts, including social workers, psychotherapists, and marriage, couple, and family therapists.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367746698