Routine Outcome Monitoring in Couple and Family Therapy

Part I. Introduction

1. How Do I Know Whether My Efforts Are Helpful for the Client? Implementing Feedback in Norway
Terje Tilden

Part II. Couple and Family Therapy in Norway

2. The History of Family Therapy in Norway
Vigdis Wie Torsteinsson, Astri Johnsen

3. A Sociological Perspective on Changes in the Family in Norway
Liv Johanne Syltevik

4. Family Therapy and Philosophy: Inspiration and Frustration
Harald Holm Nilssen

Part III. Practice-Oriented Research and Routine Outcome Monitoring

5. The Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change—STIC: A Multi-systemic and Multi-dimensional System to Integrate Science into Psychotherapeutic Practice
William M. Pinsof

6. The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs’ Efforts to Implement Feedback in Routine Couple and Family Therapy
Marianne Bie

7. Feedback as Means to Enhance Client–Therapist Interaction in Therapy
Rolf Sundet

8. Does Feedback Enhance User Involvement in Therapy?
Camilla Jensen Oanes

9. Empirically Informed Therapy Conducted at the Family Unit, Modum Bad
Bente Barstad, Hilde Opstvedt, Terje Tilden

10. Family Therapy and Holistic Complexity—An Ethnographic Approach to Therapeutic Practice in a Norwegian Psychiatric Clinic
Halvard Vike, Heidi Haukelien

11. An Anthill of Questions that Made Me Prepare for the First Session: A Clinical Vignette of the Usage of STIC Feedback System
Rune Zahl-Olsen, Camilla Jensen Oanes

12. Lessons Learned from the Implementation of a Feedback System in Couple and Family Therapy
Åshild Tellefsen Håland, Terje Tilden

Part IV. Reflections from Abroad on Couple and Family Therapy in Norway

13. How, When, and Why Do People Change Through Psychological Interventions?—Patient-Focused Psychotherapy Research
Julian A. Rubel, Wolfgang Lutz

14. How to Use Research to Become More Effective Therapists
Bruce E. Wampold

15. How Can Outcome Data Inform Change? Experiences from the Child Mental Health Context in Great Britain, Including Barriers and Facilitators to the Collection and Use of Data
Jenna Jacob, Elisa Napoleone, Victoria Zamperoni, Lily Levy, Matt Barnard, Miranda Wolpert

Part V. Concluding Remarks

16. Epilogue
Terje Tilden, Bruce E. Wampold

Keywords: Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Family, Psychotherapy