基本説明
Explains how to provide Functional Family Therapy (FFT), an empirically supported, highly successful family intervention for delinquent and substance-using adolescents.
Full Description
Adolescents with disruptive behavior problems represent one of the most difficult and recalcitrant treatment populations. These youth and their parents often enter treatment unwilling or unable to try new behaviors.
This book explains how to provide Functional Family Therapy (FFT), an empirically supported, highly successful family intervention for delinquent and substance-using adolescents. FFT systematically alters important risk and protective factors associated with the problem behaviors.
The FFT therapist first increases family members amp rsquo motivation to change by disrupting and replacing their dysfunctional attributions about themselves and each other. The therapist then works with the family to eliminate the problem behaviors and generalize new skills and interaction patterns to broader community relations.
Contents
Introduction
I. Clinical Foundations and Research Support
Early Influences: The Cultural, Conceptual, and Intellectual Zeitgeist of FFT Development
Research on Change Mechanisms
Research on FFT Outcomes
II. The FFT Clinical Model
Matching and General Parameters of FFT
Engagement Phase
Motivation Phase
Relational Assessment Phase
Behavior Change Phase
Generalization Phase
Anthony: A Case Example
III. Administering and Extending FFT
Features of Successful FFT Implementation
Training and Supervision
Application of FFT to Distinct Populations
References
Index
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