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ASSESSING CHANGE IN FAMILY FUNCTIONING AS A RESULT OF TREATMENT: THE STRUCTURAL FAMILY SYSTEMS RATING SCALE (SFSR)
Author(s) -
Szapocznik José,
Rio Arturo T.,
Hervis Olga,
Mitrani Victoria Behar,
Kurtines William,
Faraci Ana Maria
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1991.tb00897.x
Subject(s) - inter rater reliability , psychology , intervention (counseling) , rating scale , family therapy , clinical psychology , flexibility (engineering) , construct validity , modalities , reliability (semiconductor) , construct (python library) , psychometrics , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , psychiatry , computer science , social science , statistics , power (physics) , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , sociology , programming language
This article describes a theoretically based structural family assessment procedure designed for use in evaluating therapy outcome. The standardized procedure for eliciting family interaction consists of the administration of three family tasks. The family's interactional patterns on the tasks are evaluated along six dimensions of structural family functioning: Structure, Flexibility, Resonance, Developmental Stage, Identified Patienthood, and Conflict Resolution. A manual has been developed for standardizing ratings for research applications. The measure demonstrated good interrater and internal consistency reliability. Available evidence for the content, factor, and construct validity of the measure is presented. Clinical outcome research studies conducted with the measure provide evidence that the measure is sensitive to different types of structural family intervention modalities and that it discriminates between a structural family intervention versus a no treatment/wait list control condition as well as between a structural family intervention versus an individual psychotherapy treatment modality. Finally, the measure has been demonstrated to be nonreactive under both treatment and wait list conditions.