Multidimensional family therapy in adolescents with a cannabis use disorder: long-term effects on delinquency in a randomized controlled trial - van der Pol TM, Hendriks V, Rigter H, Cohn MD, Doreleijers TAH, van Domburgh L, Vermeiren RRJM.
BACKGROUND: Substance use and delinquency are considered to be mutual risk factors. Previous studies have shown that multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) is effective in tackling both conditions on the short term. The current study examines the long-term... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 28, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Understanding adolescents' experiences of self-harm: secondary analysis of family therapy sessions from the SHIFT Trial - Holliday R, Brennan C, Cottrell D.
OBJECTIVES: To explore, using first-hand accounts, adolescents' understandings of why they self-harmed, what their responses to self-harm were, and how they resisted or ceased self-harm. METHOD: Secondary analysis of video-recorded Family Therapy s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 26, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Differentiation of self, interpersonal conflict, and depression: the mediating role of anger expression - Choi SW, Murdock NL.
The current study investigated how differentiation of self (Bowen in Family therapy in clinical practice. Jason Aronson, New York, 1978; Kerr and Bowen in Family evaluation. W. W. Norton and Company, New York, 1988) was related to interpersonal conflict an... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 13, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Fidelity failures in brief strategic family therapy for adolescent drug abuse: a clinical analysis - Lebensohn-Chialvo F, Rohrbaugh MJ, Hasler BP.
As evidence-based family treatments for adolescent substance use and conduct problems gain traction, cutting edge research moves beyond randomized efficacy trials to address questions such as how these treatments work and how best to disseminate them to co... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Multifamily therapy may add to the effectiveness of single-family therapy for adolescents with anorexia nervosa
Family therapy for anorexia nervosa (FT-AN) currently has the strongest evidence base for the treatment of medically stable adolescents; however, many adolescents treated with FT-AN do not respond.1 Efforts are therefore being directed at improving FT-AN through adjuncts and adaptations. Multifamily therapy for AN (MFT-AN) is a FT-AN informed treatment in which 5-7 families attend day treatment together. MFT has shown promise in open trials,2 3 but until now no randomised trial has been conducted. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stories of trauma in family therapy with refugees: supporting safe relational spaces of narration and silence - De Haene L, Rousseau C, Kevers R, Deruddere N, Rober P.
With the sharp increase of refugees' arrival and resettlement in western communities, adequate mental health care forms a pivotal dimension in host societies' responses to those individuals and communities seeking protection within their borders. Here, cli... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
A pragmatic randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people seen after second or subsequent episodes of self-harm: the Self-Harm Intervention - Family Therapy (SHIFT) trial - Cottrell DJ, Wright-Hughes A, Collinson M, Boston P, Eisler I, Fortune S, Graham EH, Green J, House AO, Kerfoot M, Owens DW, Saloniki EC, Simic M, Tubeuf S, Farrin AJ.
BACKGROUND: Self-harm in adolescents is common and repetition rates high. There is limited evidence of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce self-harm. OBJECTIVES: To assess the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of family therapy... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Program and Other Evaluations, Effectiveness Studies Source Type: news
Routine hospital data - is it good enough for trials? An example using England's Hospital Episode Statistics in the SHIFT trial of Family Therapy vs. Treatment as Usual in adolescents following self-harm - Wright-Hughes A, Graham E, Cottrell D, Farrin A.
BACKGROUND: Use of routine data sources within clinical research is increasing and is endorsed by the National Institute for Health Research to increase trial efficiencies; however there is limited evidence for its use in clinical trials, especially in rel... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Family Therapy Disappoints in Preventing Teen Self-harm Family Therapy Disappoints in Preventing Teen Self-harm
A study investigated systemic family therapy to see whether this manual-based approach is effective in comparison with more general approaches.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Effectiveness of systemic family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: a pragmatic, phase 3, multicentre, randomised controlled trial - Cottrell DJ, Wright-Hughes A, Collinson M, Boston P, Eisler I, Fortune S, Graham EH, Green J, House AO, Kerfoot M, Owens DW, Saloniki EC, Simic M, Lambert F, Rothwell J, Tubeuf S, Farrin AJ.
BACKGROUND: Self-harm in adolescents is common and repetition occurs in a high proportion of these cases. Scarce evidence exists for effectiveness of interventions to reduce self-harm. METHODS: This pragmatic, multicentre, randomised, controlled tr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
An introduction to global family therapy: examining the empirical evidence of terror management theory within the family and social system - Volini LA.
Terror Management Theory (TMT) endorses that individuals manage fears of mortality by establishing a coherent cultural worldview and earning self-esteem by meeting cultural worldview standards. Global Family Therapy (GFT) examines these constructs within f... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
The end of family therapy for self-harm, or a new beginning? - Ougrin D, Asarnow JR.
Another randomised trial, the Self-Harm Intervention: Family Therapy (SHIFT) trial,1 has shown no benefit for another psychological therapy versus treatment as usual in adolescents who have self-harmed. Furthermore, in the study by David Cottrell and co... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
A pilot evaluation of the rapid response program: a home based family therapy - Clossey L, Simms S, Hu C, Hartzell J, Duah P, Daniels L.
A pilot evaluation study of the implementation of the Rapid Response Program, a program utilizing the ecosystemic structural family therapy model, in a rural area of Pennsylvania was conducted. This approach was implemented in children's mental health to s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 23, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Salvador Minuchin, a Pioneer of Family Therapy, Dies at 96
His work with teenagers shifted the focus from individual symptoms to their social environment. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SAM ROBERTS Tags: Minuchin, Salvador Deaths (Obituaries) Families and Family Life Therapy and Rehabilitation Source Type: news
Medaille partnership tackles behavioral health with help from students
A mental health outpatient treatment center on the Buffalo campus provides much-needed community services while serving as a counselor-in-training facility for students in three graduate programs: master's in clinical mental health counseling, master's in marriage and family therapy and doctorate in clinical psychology. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 13, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Jane Schmitt Source Type: news
