The Fishman Report

05/09/2023

A new blog up for ✍️The Fishman Report. Please note it deals with sensitive subject matter that may be triggering so please aware of that before reading. It's a grappling question - what is treatable versus a terminal condition - any views and comments welcome. H. Charles Fishman, MD
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Greetings, in this opinion piece I cover a recent referendum which has experts around the world divided. It deals with topic matter that may be triggering around euthanasia so please aware of that before reading. It's a grappling question - what is  treatable versus terminal condition?

29/03/2023

My latest blog is now live. In this instalment of The Fishman Report I examine Clinical Supervision and put it to the acid test. You'll also find a discount code for my book - Performance-Based Family Therapy. https://mailchi.mp/fb75b447b9a1/drafttemplate-fishmanreport-9313462

15/02/2023

This ground-breaking book from H. Charles Fishman, M.D. uniquely incorporates and develops results-based accountability (RBA) into the framework of structural family therapy. Relevant and practical, the book is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students of family therapy, course leaders, and all clinicians in professional contexts, such as social workers, psychotherapists, and marriage, couple, and family therapists.
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In this groundbreaking book, Charles Fishman uniquely incorporates and develops results-based accountability (RBA) into the framework of structural family therapy. Collaborating with the founder of RBA, Mark Friedman, this approach aims to transform the field of family therapy by allowing clinicians...

30/10/2022

My contribution to the Perspectives column of Family Therapy magazine from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. The magazine's readers are generally MFT clinicians at the postgraduate level and mental health professionals.
‣ In summary I conclude "We can return family therapy to its rightful place as the gold standard treatment to mitigate suffering in families long into the 21st century. The IST-RBA model provides this straightforward methodology to determine whether anybody is better off. Let’s move the needle—go beyond process and let your outcomes shine the light."
📖 https://www.routledge.com/Performance-Based-Family-Therapy-A-Therapists-Guide-to-Measurable-Change/Fishman/p/book/9780367751616?fbclid=IwAR0Cfs9K5C3NfdMAl98yyB91WgHSu1qt5zgVipZxbHNeGTvhwBWFowaH24A

https://ftm.aamft.org/performance-based-family-therapy-is-anybody-better-off/

I was a young psychiatry resident at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School; after two years, I could be seen fleeing from the many different models and innovators, including Professor Aaron Beck, founder of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT).

26/09/2022

My latest newsletter is out now for you to read. It's about Becoming a Local Clinical Scientist – and the fit of Results-Based Accountability™ (RBA). You'll also find details on how to order my new book, Performance-based Family Therapy - https://mailchi.mp/6e2835d6ac6b/drafttemplate-fishmanreport-9181638

04/08/2022

My latest newsletter is out now. In it you can read some excerpts from my new book Performance-Based Family Therapy, and get a link to purchase it with a discount code. Read more here:
https://mailchi.mp/588923bd78d3/drafttemplate-fishmanreport-9154898

15/03/2022

Introducing my new book, the fruit of my many years of study, practice, supervision, in the sphere of mental health, from my early days working with Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley.
For the past two of those decades, I have seen the impressive benefits of Results-Based Accountability (RBA), an outcomes-oriented management framework, which has transformed government services worldwide.
Collaborating with Mark Friedman, the originator of RBA, we integrated RBA and Intensive Structural Family Therapy. This new hybrid framework offers many advantages for the field: a clinician’s alternative to Evidence Based Medicine, a user-friendly, incisive outcome tracking system, a model of grounded supervision and an outcomes directed Intensive family therapy and, as they say in the late night TV commercials, “and there’s more.”
In these pages, I explain how and why you too can use RBA principles, to become a “local clinical scientist,” achieving excellent outcomes for your clients, supervisees, and the next generation.

“Anyone who has ever been a family therapist or dreamed of being one, will be inspired by Fishman’s words, enriched by seeing what it means to fully deal with human problems from a systemic perspective.”
Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD, Author of the foundational book The Family Life Cycle.

Available now from Amazon or directly from Routledge, with a discount in March 2022.
https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Based-Family-Therapy-Therapists-Measurable-ebook/dp/B09QLJCVKM/
https://www.routledge.com/Performance-Based-Family-Therapy-A-Therapists-Guide-to-Measurable-Change/Fishman/p/book/9780367751616