First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

* 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.

* 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.

Enduring Change in Eating Disorders provides a unique perspective on the successful treatment of eating disorders, which are among the most debilitating and recalcitrant psychiatric diseases. Unique in the field, this book details effective Structural Family Therapy with qualitative follow-ups of up to 20 years. A practical approach providing concrete tools to the clinician to creating change that holds over time with bulimia, anorexia, and compulsive overeating. The text draws on cases from the author's practice of over twenty-five years and follows his approach in the theoretical tradition of Intensive Structural Family Therapy (IST). Chapters discuss the nature and significance of eating disorders, a review of current treatment approaches, and the importance of the family in the therapeutic process. Cases of eating disorders in youths and adults are provided as well as instances of bulimia, anorexia, and compulsive overeating. Three appendices provide the reader with information regarding the scientific basis of the IST model, the effectiveness of the approach in treating conditions other than eating disorders and preventing eating disorders.

"Enduring Change in Eating Disorders" provides a unique perspective on the successful treatment of eating disorders, which are among the most debilitating and recalcitrant psychiatric diseases. Unique in the field, this book details effective Structural Family therapy with qualitative follow-ups of up to 20 years. A practical approach providing concrete tools to the clinician to creating change that holds over time with bulimia, anorexia, and compulsive overeating.
The text draws on cases from the author's practice of over twenty-five years and follow his approach in the theoretical tradition of Intensive Structural Family Therapy (IST). Chapters discuss the nature and significance of eating disorders, a review of current treatment approaches, and the importance of the family in the therapeutic process. Cases of eating disorders in youths and adults are provided as well as instances of bulimia, anorexia, and compulsive overeating. Three appendices provide the reader with information regarding the scientific basis of the IST model, the effectiveness of the approach in treating conditions other thank eating disorders and preventing eating disorders.

First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Families today are assailed on all fronts by the profound changes, such as the decline of real wages and the loss in many industries of job security, that have shaken society over the past forty years and forced the monolithic family structure to take on a multitude of new forms, including the now-common dual-income family and the single-parent family. With families now more dependent on outside institutions for help and support-from the day care center to social services to neighbors and friends-family therapy needs a model of intervention that is capable of dealing with the new role these outside institutions and their representatives play in the life of the family.In this groundbreaking book, H. Charles Fishman takes this next logical step in the evolution of the treatment of families and details how to assess the broader system supporting and affecting the family and how to intervene effectively. Assessment techniques show how to decide which people and institutions (such as siblings, friends, co-workers, employers, social workers, teachers, clergy) need to be incorporated into the treatment. Fishman outlines how and when representatives of these outside institutions should meet with the therapist and the family. Rich case examples extensively illustrate principles of intervention for working within the family's context and for identifying who or what is maintaining the dysfunction of the family system.A concluding section reveals that altruism, a side of human nature too easily forgotten or dismissed, is the driving force behind the cooperative spirit regularly shown by participants in intensive structural therapy. This surprising finding is sure to inspire all who help families deal with the stresses of life today.

A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment.Now he explains in close detail those precise and difficult maneuvers that constitute his art. The book thus codifies the method of one of the country's most successful practitioners.