Trial reportAdministration and policy in mental health2017
Benchmarking Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavior Problems in Usual Care: Fidelity, Outcomes, and Therapist Performance Differences.
Trial report in Administration and policy in mental health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evidence Base on Outpatient Behavioral Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use, 2014-2017: Outcomes, Treatment Delivery, and Promising Horizons.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- Therapist Self-Report of Fidelity to Core Elements of Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavior Problems: Psychometrics of a Pragmatic Quality Indicator Tool.Administration and policy in mental health · 2022Trial
- Training Community Therapists in Core Elements of CBT and Family Therapy for Adolescent Externalizing Problems.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Trial
- Therapist self-report reliability and accuracy in individual vs. conjoint systemic family therapy sessions: implications for clinical monitoring.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Using a Single Measure To Assess Adherence and Differentiation in Family Therapy for Adolescent Externalizing Problems.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Article
- Examining Caregiver Practices During Adolescent Outpatient Alcohol Use and Co-Occurring Mental Health Treatment: Protocol for a Dyadic Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Core Elements of Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavioral Health Problems: Validity Generalization in Community Settings.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2023Article
- Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2023Article
- Caregiver Engagement in Outpatient Treatment for Adolescents in Community Settings: Construct and Predictive Validity of Family Therapy Techniques.Administration and policy in mental health · 2023Article
- Impact of a peer-led, community-based parenting programme delivered at a national scale: an uncontrolled cohort design with benchmarking.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Online Training of Community Therapists in Observational Coding of Family Therapy Techniques: Reliability and Accuracy.Administration and policy in mental health · 2022Observational
- The Validation of a Provider-Reported Fidelity Measure for the Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention in a Community Mental Health Setting.Behavior therapy · 2020Article
- Measurement Training and Feedback System for Implementation of family-based services for adolescent substance use: protocol for a cluster randomized trial of two implementation strategies.Implementation science : IS · 2019Article
- Distilling the Core Elements of Family Therapy for Adolescent Substance Use: Conceptual and Empirical Solutions.Journal of child & adolescent substance abuse · 2017Article
- Core Elements of Family Therapy for Adolescent Behavior Problems: Empirical Distillation of Three Manualized Treatments.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
- A Preliminary Evaluation of Daily and Momentary Variability in Parenting Practices During Adolescent Alcohol Use and Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment.Substance use : research and treatmentArticle
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Abstract
This study evaluated whether community therapists delivering family therapy for adolescent behavior problems in usual care achieved performance benchmarks established in controlled trials for treatment fidelity and outcomes, with particular focus on individual differences in therapist performance. The study contained N = 38 adolescents (50 % male; mean age 15 years) whose self-reported race/ethnicity was Hispanic (74 %), African American (11 %), multiracial (11 %), and other (4 %). Clients were treated by 13 therapists in one community mental health clinic that delivered family therapy as the routine standard of care. Therapists provided self-report data on adherence to core family therapy techniques; these scores were inflation-adjusted based on concordance with observer reports. Results showed that community therapists surpassed the fidelity benchmark for core family therapy techniques established by research therapists during a controlled trial. Regarding change in client functioning at 6-month follow-up, community therapists were equivalent to the benchmark for internalizing symptoms and superior for externalizing symptoms and delinquent acts. Community therapists also demonstrated a high degree of performance uniformity: Each one approximated the fidelity benchmark, and only two produced relatively weak outcomes on any of the client change indicators. Caveats for interpreting therapist performance data, given the small sample size, are described. Recommendations are made for developing therapist-report fidelity measures and utilizing statistical process control methods to diagnose therapist differences and enhance quality assurance procedures.
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