Family Therapy with Adolescent Drug Abusers: A Review

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Baither
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Drug Abusers ◽  
Treatment Goals ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Family

The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review of literature concerning the current status of family therapy in the treatment of drug abusing adolescents. The method of approach was to survey and summarize findings and statements found in the literature. The paper includes six topical areas: Why Treat the Family, Family Life of the Abuser, Approaches to Treatment, The Treatment Process, Treatment Goals, and The Treatment Program. A brief concluding statement is included expressing the need for a systematic approach to therapy.

Family Therapy—An attempt to integrate models and modes into a structure of developing phases of therapy

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna E. Kippax
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Family Process ◽  
The Family ◽  
Five Phases ◽  
Considerable Range

There is a need experienced by most practitioners of family therapy to impose order and structure upon the considerable range of concepts currently used in the family process approach. This paper suggests a possible structure utilizing five phases which characteristically unfold during the treatment process. The structure provides a rationale so that seemingly divergent techniques of therapy may be seen to be appropriate to particular phases of therapy, rather than mutually contradictory or exclusive. The article further attempts to demonstrate that certain conceptual models and the techniques that arise from them, are called into play depending upon the nature of the family in treatment.

scholarly journals Family Therapy and Young Abusers

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Siri Søftestad ◽  
Margareth Bjørtvedt ◽  
Jorunn Haga ◽  
Karin E. Hildén
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Multiprofessional Team ◽  
The Family ◽  
Experienced Child ◽  
And Control

This article focuses on young abusers participating in a treatment program for families where one or more children have experienced child sexual abuse and/or have abused other children. TVERS is a multiprofessional team where the treatment is performed within a frame of control ,“care and control hand in hand”. Three trained family therapists from three different agencies come together and form the therapy. The caseworker from the child care protection service (Children`s Service) becomes a part of the TVERS-team during their therapeutic work with the young abuser and his family. The therapists are given access to all reports and documents from the police, the court and medical services. The caseworker can follow up the family between appointments as well as initiate child protection procedures if necessary. The article describes our experience of working with families where the son in the family has abused other children outside or inside their own family.

Teaching Family Therapy

1988 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 511-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Zilversmit
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Family Treatment ◽  
Training Tool ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family

Family agencies are faced with the task of teaching new workers to use a family model. The author presents a model for training in which aspects of the training group's process are used as a training tool that parallels the family treatment process.

Session 1: Getting Started in Family Treatment

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Tara S. Peris ◽  
John Piacentini
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Treatment Success ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Family Treatment ◽  
Treatment Goals ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
The Family

This chapter provides an overview of the first family therapy session. It describes how to introduce families to the PFIT program and to develop a collaborative environment for establishing treatment goals. It describes psychoeducation about the role of the family in child OCD treatment, including family responses and expectations that may undermine success. It places particular emphasis on helping families to understand patterns of symptom accommodation that may be a barrier to treatment success, and it describes broader family dynamics that may interfere with efforts to change accommodation. The chapter also outlines steps for assessing current family functioning, including strengths and weakness, and for evaluating the family’s current strategies for managing OCD. Initial skills training begins with exercises designed to promote positivity in the home environment.

scholarly journals Family with an adolescent in the face of depression – possible effects in systemic family therapy

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-175
Author(s):  
Syma Marta Al Azab-Malinowska
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Systemic Family Therapy ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this article is to describe the phenomenon of teenage depression in the context of the impact of depression on the functioning of the family system. The first part of the paper shows the understanding of the concept of the family on the basis of the system theory, paying special attention to the family life cycle and the function of symptoms in the family system. The second part of the article presents the etiology, symptoms and specificity of teenage depression. The developmental tasks characteristic for the age of adolescence were also reconstructed. The last part of the article is devoted to the ways in which depressioncan be understood from a systemic and family therapy perspective The possible ways and directions of working with a teenager and his parents are also indicated.

Inclusion of Family Therapy in Rehabilitation Program of Substance Abuse and Its Efficacious Implementation

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enver Ulaş ◽  
Halil Ekşi
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Treatment Session ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
The Family

The family has been described as the center or heart of societal relationships. There has been a historic neglect of research in area of counseling for the family members of substance abusers. As result, treatment for individual family members affected by alcoholism and drug addiction remains a neglected component of majority of addiction programs. The study used a sample of 36 families who participated in family therapy intensive outpatient and inpatient treatment program during 2 years. This study explored the efficacy of family-based treatment in changing family’s attitudes toward people with addiction and toward specific relative with addiction. The participants were in two groups; ethnographic technique of action research model was used. Participants in the treatment group received treatment session and participants in the control group did not receive treatment session but had a general treatment program in health centers. This study had two phases: (1) recruiting, selecting, interviewing, and determining eligibility of family members from both groups in the study and (2) applying the intervention to the treatment group with the help of cognitive-behavioral group counseling. This treatment program comprised of solution-focused family skilled training therapy, action learning techniques, community and peer mentorship, and parent training was effective in reducing addicts drug ingestion, changing their attitudes about drug use, increasing knowledge of the physical consequences of drug use, and improving competent behaviors. Family therapy enhanced family resilience, structure, and strong ties; the program improved problem-solving skills, coping skills, and family resiliency levels of the addicts.

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