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Does Feedback Enhance User Involvement in Therapy?

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Routine Outcome Monitoring in Couple and Family Therapy

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Within the systemic field, user involvement is somehow taken for granted, given our emphasis on relational and contextual co-creation of meaning. Hence, inviting for feedback from our clients may be embedded within our working style. Making use of feedback on a frequent and systematic basis is recommended by governments and therapy researchers and should represent a very concrete way to ensure user involvement in therapy. But how the therapist makes use of and adapts to the feedback may vary to a great deal. In this chapter, a qualitative study of therapists’ thoughts and experiences on how to use STIC in ways that help or hinder user involvement is presented and discussed in relation to some of the central epistemological pillars in systemic family therapy.

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    Camilla Jensen Oanes

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    Bruce E. Wampold

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Oanes, C.J. (2017). Does Feedback Enhance User Involvement in Therapy?. 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_8

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