Appendix.
Items From the Therapist Adherence Scale
| BSFT™ Study Therapist Adherence Form (ADH) |
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| Joining |
| ADH (01). Conveys understanding, acceptance, and respect to every family member and does not criticize, accuse, or label. |
| ADH (02). Greets every family member and regularly connects with and seeks point of view of each family member. |
| ADH (04). Reflects back to the family their comments without challenging them. |
| ADH (05). Mimics the family style. |
| ADH (06). Establishes his/her therapeutic leadership.a |
| ADH (07). Joins with children/adolescents.a |
| ADH (08). Joins with parents/adults.a |
| Tracking and Diagnostic Enactments |
| ADH (09). Asks clarifying, process-oriented questions. |
| ADH (11). Stimulates dialogue/directs enactments between family members when they do not occur spontaneously.a |
| ADH (12). Remains decentralized.a |
| Reframing |
| ADH (14). Offers and sells the family new and more positive views of the presenting problems, of each other, or of themselves.a |
| ADH (16). Reframing is appropriate and effective for children/adolescents.a |
| ADH (17). Reframing is appropriate and effective for parents/adults.a |
| Restructuring Skills |
| ADH (18). Focuses on process, not content.a |
| ADH (19). Focuses on present interactions.a |
| ADH (20). Actively directs and elicits new behaviors.a |
| ADH (23). Works with a subsystem within the overall context of the whole family for purposes of restructuring.a |
| ADH (24). Strengthens, realigns, or creates boundaries between family members.a |
| ADH (26). Offers positive feedback at the end of a successful transaction. |
| ADH (27). Assigns homework tasks. |
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Questions on the Therapist Adherence Form (ADH) that correspond to identical questions on the Clinical Supervision Checklist.