Systemic family therapy manual

Complete list of authors: Helen Pote, Peter Stratton, David Cottrell, Paul Boston, David Shapiro, Helga Hanks

Leeds Family Therapy Research Centre (LFTRC) is a productive forum for studying families and family therapy.
This need for systemic and family therapy to make its successes more visible has led to the development of research methods and tools for measuring and reporting on outcomes of the clinical work. The LFTRC team has produced the unique Leeds Systemic Family Therapy Manual (Pote, H., Stratton, P., Cottrell, D., Boston, P., Shapiro, D. & Hanks, H (2001). University of Leeds: The Family Therapy Research Centre) and Therapist Adherence Protocol. This manual is the product of a research project funded by the Medical Research Council (Principal Investigator Peter Stratton, Researcher Helen Pote). It is designed to be used both to standardize the therapeutic process in controlled outcome research, and also as a resource for training. The research process undertaken to produce the manual is described in: Pote, H., Stratton, P., Cottrell, D., Shapiro, D., & Boston, P. (2003). Systemic family therapy can be manualised: Research process and findings. Journal of Family Therapy. 25: 236-262. And Allison, S., Perlesz, A., Pote, H., Stratton, P.,& Cottrell, D.(2002) Extended Dialogue About Significant Developments: Manualising Systemic Family Therapy: The Leeds Manual. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 23(3), 153-158.