ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors review the history of empirically informed treatment (EIP) within individual therapy. The hallmark of EIP is that it involves collecting scientific data from clients over the course of therapy and feeding scientific data back to therapists in real time to inform them about the status and/or progress of their clients. The bulk of the wave has taken the form of establishing empirically supported treatments. The training of students and therapists to use Measurement Feedback Systems represents one of the major challenges facing empirically informed couple and family therapy. Rate aspect of the empirical transformation has legitimized couple and family therapy under the gold standard of empirical research—randomized clinical trials. The Functional Family Therapy (FFT)-Clinical Feedback System was developed within the context of FFT research and practice to provide real-time data to clinical stakeholders on model fidelity, client outcomes, and service delivery.
