Editorial: Empirically Supported Treatments in Couple and Family Therapy

Lebow, Jay L.

doi:10.1111/famp.12240

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“…Lebow () recently edited a special issue of Family Process on couple and family therapy research. He concluded that there is now a significant number of well‐defined empirically supported systemic interventions for specific problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One-to-one services (such as supportive parent counselling) and complex interventions (such as multi-component care packages for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities), which are arguably systemic interventions, but which differ in many practical ways from family therapy, were excluded from this review. Lebow (2016) recently edited a special issue of Family Process on couple and family therapy research. He concluded that there is now a significant number of well-defined empirically supported systemic interventions for specific problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: the current evidence base

Carr

2018

Journal of Family Therapy

209

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This review updates previous similar papers published in JFT in 2000, 2009 and 2014. It presents evidence from meta‐analyses, systematic literature reviews, narrative literature reviews and controlled trials for the effectiveness of systemic interventions for families of children and adolescents with common mental health problems and other difficulties. In this context, systemic interventions include both family therapy and other family‐based approaches such as parent training, or parent implemented behavioural programmes. The evidence supports the effectiveness of systemic interventions either alone or as part of multimodal programmes for sleep, feeding and attachment problems in infancy; recovery from child abuse and neglect; conduct problems, emotional problems, eating disorders, somatic problems, and first episode psychosis.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: the current evidence base

Carr

2018

Journal of Family Therapy

209

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“…People suffering from depression, anxiety (Bilsker et al ., ) and relational discord (Aronsson et al , ) also have an elevated risk of impaired work functioning. In a special issue of the journal Family Process focusing on empirically supported treatments in couple and family therapy (CFT), the editor concludes: ‘these treatments now extend to treat a wide array of significant couple and family problems, suggesting the value of couple and family therapy for both relational problems and problems often thought of as nested within individuals’ (Lebow, , p. 387). More specifically, CFT has been found to be effective for treating depression and anxiety (Carr, ; Crane and Payne, ; Gurman, , ), as well as dyadic and family problems (Sexton et al , ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Change in work functioning from pre‐ to post‐treatment in feedback‐informed Couple and Family Therapy in Norway

Zahl‐Olsen

Håland

Gausel

et al. 2019

Journal of Family Therapy

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Work functioning has significance for the individual and society but has rarely been used as an outcome measure for psychotherapy. Work-related factors such as work satisfaction and working hours impact personal and relational life. More than half of those on sick leave suffer from social problems such as family-related distress or mental health issues rather than medical issues. This article investigates work functioning change from pre-to post-treatment in feedback-informed couple and family therapy. With a sample of 165 clients from different parts of Norway, we used hierarchical multiple regression and calculated clinical significant change in the analysis. We found firstly that work functioning improved from preto post-treatment. Secondly, we found that level of depressive symptoms, couple distress and family functioning predicted work functioning at pretreatment. Thirdly, we found that the improvements on these measures (depressive symptoms, couple distress and family functioning) predicted work functioning at post-treatment. Practitioner points • Clients in couple and family therapy improve from start to end of therapy in work functioning, depressive symptoms, couple distress and family functioning • Individual and relational improvement predicts the level of work functioning at post-treatment • Therapists should attend to the client's difficulties not only at individual and relational levels but also in life functioning • Even if effect sizes are high for the treatment, not all clients improve

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“…Research evidence on the effectiveness of relational interventions for specific problems is essential to the credibility and viability of the practice and the profession of CMFT. There is a great deal of published clinical research done by scholars identified with the profession; however, with the exception of the series of influential and highly cited reviews of family therapy research initiated and developed by Sprenkle (Pinsof & Wynne, 1995; Sprenkle, ; Sprenkle, ), the most comprehensive scholarly resources on family therapy are from the more narrow perspective of couple and family psychology (c.f., Lebow, ). Even in the Sprenkle reviews, a majority of authors for the 2012 and 2002 reviews and all of the authors for the 1995 reviews are identified with couple and family psychology (2012, p. 4).…”

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The Profession of Couple, Marital, and Family Therapy (CMFT): Defining Ourselves and Moving Forward

Wampler

Blow

McWey³

et al. 2017

J Marital Family Therapy

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The field of Couple, Marital, and Family Therapy (CMFT) has evolved and strengthened, but we still have work to do when it comes to identity, comprehensive scholarly resources, empirical support, and name brand recognition. We explore the reasons for these challenges and propose ways to address them: embracing the interdisciplinary nature of the field, consistently organizing treatment effectiveness by problem rather than by intervention model, continuing innovation in theory development, and utilizing more diverse and meaningful research methods. This approach provides a more accurate representation of the scope of practice of CMFTs, the range of mental and physical health problems we address, and the depth and extent of the existing research on the effectiveness of relational therapies.

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Editorial: Empirically Supported Treatments in Couple and Family Therapy

Cited by 26 publications

References 42 publications

Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: the current evidence base

Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: the current evidence base

Change in work functioning from pre‐ to post‐treatment in feedback‐informed Couple and Family Therapy in Norway

The Profession of Couple, Marital, and Family Therapy (CMFT): Defining Ourselves and Moving Forward

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