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Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change

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Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy

Name and Type of Measure

The STIC (Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change) feedback system is an online self-report measure of client functioning that assesses individuals across multiple dimensions of functioning in multiple relationships (Pinsof 2017; Pinsof et al. 2009).

Introduction

The STIC feedback system is a web-based tool for research and empirically informed therapy (Pinsof 2017). The system includes instruments for collecting clinical information from individuals, couples, and families before, during, and after therapy. It includes a web-based feedback system that therapists use to integrate that data into clinical practice. Finally, the STIC system includes a set of clinical best practices for integrating data into practice. In addition, the web-based nature of the system allows the exporting of data for research, and the data collection portion of the website can be configured for clinical trial use (i.e., to randomize clients into data-collection versus non-data-collection...

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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 Routine outcome monitoring in couple and family therapy (pp. 85–101). Cham: Springer.

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  • Pinsof, W. M., Zinbarg, R. E., Lebow, J. L., Knobloch-Fedders, L. M., Durbin, E., Chambers, A., Latta, T., Karem, E., Goldsmith, J., & Friedman, G. (2009). Laying the foundation for progress research in family, couple, and individual therapy: The development and psychometric features of the initial systemic therapy inventory of change. Psychotherapy Research, 19(2), 143–156.

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  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Jacob Goldsmith & Lesley Fisher

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  1. Jacob Goldsmith
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Correspondence to Jacob Goldsmith .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Jay Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Anthony Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. Council for Relationships, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Heather Pederson

  2. Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, USA

    Diana Semmelhack

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Goldsmith, J., Fisher, L. (2018). Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_404-1

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