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Opening The Black Box Of Family-Based Treatments: An Artificial Intelligence Framework To Examine Therapeutic Alliance And Therapist Empathy, Phillippe B Cunningham, Jordon Gilmore, Sylvie Naar, Stephanie D Preston, Catherine F Eubanks, Nina Christina Hubig, Jerome Mcclendon, Samiran Ghosh, Stacy Ryan-Pettes

Journal Articles

The evidence-based treatment (EBT) movement has primarily focused on core intervention content or treatment fidelity and has largely ignored practitioner skills to manage interpersonal process issues that emerge during treatment, especially with difficult-to-treat adolescents (delinquent, substance-using, medical non-adherence) and those of color. A chief complaint of "real world" practitioners about manualized treatments is the lack of correspondence between following a manual and managing microsocial interpersonal processes (e.g. negative affect) that arise in treating "real world clients." Although family-based EBTs share core similarities (e.g. focus on family interactions, emphasis on practitioner engagement, family involvement), most of these treatments do not have …