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Performance-Based Family Therapy H. Charles Fishman

Performance-Based Family Therapy By H. Charles Fishman

Performance-Based Family Therapy by H. Charles Fishman


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Summary

In this groundbreaking book, Charles Fishman uniquely develops a results-based accountability (RBA) into the framework of structural family therapy. Collaborating with the founder of RBA, Mark Friedman, this approach aims to transform the field of family therapy by allowing clinicians to track performance efficiently with their clients.

Performance-Based Family Therapy Summary

Performance-Based Family Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Measurable Change by H. Charles Fishman

* Uniquely applies and provides an introduction of the Results-Based Accountability (RBA) framework to family therapy used in government services.
* Expands the existing evidence-based literature and presents an alternative, liberating the family therapy community from the constraints of the rigid EBM gatekeepers.
* Author co-authored one of the foundational texts in the field, Family Therapy Techniques, which Salvador Minuchin.
* Includes practical appendices and 'tracking tools' to empower clinicians to track their data, choose treatment models that obtain best outcomes, and become a 'local clinician scientist'.
* Introduces a new role in family therapy, the Community Resource Specialist (CRS), who works to help the family resolve stressful social problems that families often endure.
* Demonstrates how RBA can be applied to specific situations, such as to those with eating disorders.

Performance-Based Family Therapy Reviews

'Anyone who has ever been a family therapist or dreamed of being one, will be inspired by Fishman's words and enriched by seeing what it means to fully deal with human problems from a systemic perspective.'

Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, Ph.D., Director of the Multicultural Family Institute, Highland Park, NJ; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

'All therapists, not just those working with couples and families, will benefit from reading his approach and the accompanying case studies.'

Scott Browning, Ph.D., ABPP

'His clear guidelines and case illustrations speak to practitioners working with multi-stressed families in low-income, marginalized, and under-resourced communities.'

Froma Walsh, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, University of Chicago; Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health; Author, Strengthening Family Resilience, 3rd edition

'This book should be on the shelf of every practicing family therapist and supervisor as a review, and assigned as a text for every family therapy student.'

Linda Metcalf, Ph.D., Professor of Graduate Counselling Programs, Texas Wesleyan University, USA

About H. Charles Fishman

H. Charles Fishman, MD, a master family therapist, has trained and supervised family therapists all over the world with his primary focus on the power of the family. He has co-authored with Salvador Minuchin a foundational text in family therapy and five other books, including Enduring Change in Eating Disorders: Interventions with Long-Term Results (Routledge).

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Broken Promises of Family Therapy: The Fatal Flaw 2. Challenging Evidence-Based Medicine: The Age of Skepticism: Studies That Define the Standard of Care Are Unreliable 3. A Case for Results-Based Accountability 4. Intensive Structural Therapy Streamlined 5. Integrating RBA and IST 6. RBA/IST for Eating Disorders 7. The Community Resource Specialist 8. Beyond Theory: Outcome-Based Supervision 9. Patterns That Connect 10. Our Challenge Appendix References Index

Additional information

NLS9780367751616
9780367751616
0367751615
Performance-Based Family Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Measurable Change by H. Charles Fishman
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-03-15
240
N/A
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