Conceptual framework for telehealth strategies to increase family involvement in treatment and recovery for youth opioid use disorder

This article presents a conceptual framework for telehealth strategies that can be adopted to increase family involvement across a four ‐stage continuum of youth OUD treatment and recovery: Treatment Preparation, Treatment Initiation, Treatment Stabilization, OUD Recovery. It first identifies provider‐delivered tele‐interventions that can enhance OUD services in each of the four stages, including family outreach, family engage ment, family‐focused intervention, and family‐focused recovery maintenance. It then introduces several types of direct‐to‐family tele‐supports that can be used to supplement provider‐delivered interventions. These include bothsynchronous tele ‐supports (remote interactions that occur in real time) such as helplines, peer‐to‐peer coaching, and online support groups; andasynchronous tele ‐supports (communications that occur without participants being simultaneously present) such as automated text messaging, self‐directed internet‐based courses, and digital web support.
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research