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Developing A Measure Of Fidelity For An Ecological Approach To Family Therapy, Robert Allan, Michael Ungar Mar 2016

Developing A Measure Of Fidelity For An Ecological Approach To Family Therapy, Robert Allan, Michael Ungar

Robert Allan

This article reviews of the role of fidelity in family therapy research and how to develop a measure based on a program of research to evaluate the effectiveness of Ungar’s (2011, 2012) social ecological approach to clinical practice. The social ecological approach is a model of intentional practice that helps individuals and families with complex needs, changes problem behaviors, and sustains those changes by increasing their capacity to navigate and negotiate for resources meaningful to them. As a means to illustrate the process of developing a fidelity measure, the rationale and development of the social ecological approach-fidelity measure is presented …