ABSTRACT
Behavioral family intervention (BFI), as exemplified in the excellent chapter by Matthew Sanders (chap. 13, this volume), has been a groundbreaking treatment innovation. Sanders and other BFI originators rightly deserve praise for developing a systematic intervention that is grounded in theory. Even more, advocates of the approach deserve rich praise for moving beyond advocacy and systematically evaluating the outcomes of their therapeutic and preventative interventions. BFI is perhaps the most thoroughly researched intervention designed to benefit children and families and, like other cognitive behavior therapy researchers, BFI investigators have made a major contribution by promoting treatment outcome research even apart from the effectiveness of their favored intervention.
