I am looking to investigate cognitive flexibility as an outcome of family therapy. I would like to know if there is a measure that would enable me to assess someone's thinking/perspective on a specific problem (i.e. the problem they have brought to therapy).
First, the commitment of each one of the members in a a group perspective of a simple and objective problem, in order to establish the familiar links; establish the net of the family - if there is a alpha member; draw the net with preponderant scale capacity of involvement and guidance of each member and give a value to each one- then put some simple and objective tasks for the family in the same number of the members. As you continue to do this and increase controversy , you will have a sum of points for each member and as so on you do it, values for flexibility of each member will grow and you may establish such measures. I believe that you can develop it more and more. Make graphics of each session results. Try to perceive the linguistic signs that show flexibility and try to establish who use them, why, and how. Compare the graphics. You may even record the dialogues to find the specific correlation between them and the members. Hope I helped.
Hi Sian,
You can check out the practice-based outcome literature. For a quick book review you can check out Gaete, J. (2011). Developing and delivering practice-based evidence: A guide for the psychological therapies. Psychotherapy research, 1-3. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2011.611544
more specifically, you can check:
Franklin, C., Corcoran, J., Nowicki, J., & Streeter, C. (1997). Using client self-anchored scales to measure outcomes in solution-focused therapy. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 16, 246-265.
They have expanded the scaling technique (ST) (Berg & de Shazer, 1993) as an outcome measure. The ST is usually used to assess problems and develop therapy goals with clients with an ordinal scale (10 point continuum). Therapists use client’s preferred meanings (the viewing or 'perspective' you mentioned), and work with them in defining behavioral change goals (the doing). Franklin et al. (1997) show with three different clinical cases (using a single case design for each one of them), the ST can be used to collect reliable, valid and relevant outcome data, which allows both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data.
hope that helps,
j
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