About this episode

The episode discusses the Facilitative Systemic Intervention Skills measure and its implications for training effective therapists.

Today on the podcast, we have Dr. Adam Jones from Texas Woman's University and his amazing Master's student, Madeline Schock. Questions about the FSIS Rating Scale that we discussed today: You helped develop the Facilitative Systemic Intervention Skills measure. Can you help us understand a little bit about why you developed the measure and what it is? How you measure these systemic therapy skills? Can we briefly list the skills and discuss them? The FSIS captures 8 distinct dimensions of systemic intervention skills. Can you walk us through how you identified these specific eight dimensions? How did you determine that effective family therapists were demonstrating these particular skills? Are the skills intended to be viewed as a sequence, like a step-by-step guide to responding? Your research suggests we can now measure and predict therapeutic effectiveness with specific behavioral indicators. How does this evidence-based approach challenge or support traditional MFT training methods? Are there traditions in our field - like live supervision or family-of-origin work - that you think we should reconsider? You are training students to rate therapist responses and use the FSIS…

People in this episode

Host: Society for the Teaching of Marriage and Family Therapy

Guests: Dr. Adam Jones, Madeline Schock

Topics covered

• Facilitative Systemic Intervention Skills
• therapeutic effectiveness
• family therapy training
• systemic therapy skills
• evidence-based practice

Keywords

• FSIS
• systemic therapy
• therapist training
• behavioral indicators
• family therapy techniques

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas Woman's University

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