Main description:

* 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.

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