Innovations in Systemic Family Therapy Effectiveness Research

The Couple Relationship Scale: A brief measure to facilitate routine outcome monitoring in couple therapy

“…However, the construct of consensus might not be relevant to many clinicians. For example, some models of therapy, such as Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (Christensen et al, 2020), focus less on helping partners agree about topics and emphasize, instead, helping partners accept their differences. Other excellent measures were developed specifically for a clinical population and measure various aspects of couple functioning, but are lengthy and costly to administer (e.g., STIC; Pinsof et al, 2015), decreasing their feasibility.…”

“…It is telling that the study by Reese et al (2010) that examined ROM in couple therapy used a measure of individual rather than couple relationship, functioning. Couple therapists lack the necessary assessment tools to implement ROM (Miller & Jaurequi, 2020). The objective of this paper is to present a newly developed short and practical measure of couple functioning to facilitate the adoption of ROM among couple therapists.…”

“…The practice of routinely monitoring client progress is becoming increasingly common in psychotherapy (Miller & Jaurequi, 2020) but has not been widely adopted in couple therapy.…”