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This chapter presents the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC), an online, multi-systemic, and multi-dimensional measurement and feedback system. The STIC includes six system scales that measure adult, child/adolescent, family, and couple functioning, as well as three scales for measuring the alliance in family, couple, and individual therapy. Clients fill out all demographically appropriate scales before the first and all subsequent sessions, regardless of the type of therapy. Coming out of the tradition of client-focused research, the STIC brings the principles and values of a family systems’ perspective to the investigation and practice of virtually any psychotherapy. The chapter elaborates the use; the STIC is a research and a clinical tool. For research, the STIC provides a well-validated and reliable set of integrated measures—a “one-stop shop” for defining problems, tracking change, and assessing outcomes. For practice, the STIC is an user-friendly tool for empirically informed assessment, planning, progress evaluation, and termination decision-making. The chapter illustrates the clinical use of the STIC over the course of treatment with a couple. The STIC’s potential as a central component of empirically informed psychotherapy is discussed.
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Pinsof, W.M. (2017). The Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change—STIC: A Multi-systemic and Multi-dimensional System to Integrate Science into Psychotherapeutic Practice. In: Tilden, T., Wampold, B. (eds) Routine Outcome Monitoring in Couple and Family Therapy. European Family Therapy Association Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50675-3_5
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