Multidimensional family therapy reduces self-reported criminality among adolescents with a cannabis use disorder - van der Pol TM, Henderson CE, Hendriks V, Schaub MP, Rigter H.
We examined whether MDFT decreased criminal offending among cannabis abusing adolescents, as compared with individual psychotherapy (IP).... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 21, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Tips To Survive Thanksgiving In Post-Election Turmoil
The objective answer may seem (painfully) obvious to you, but logic and fact mean nothing to those whose minds have split into us vs. them--which is all of us when we feel desperately unsafe. And we all feel that way right now. The legions of minorities who have been targeted by Trump and physically attacked by his supporters, as well as the straight white people who continue to scapegoat them. (Consider that those who live in homogenous, isolated, communities tend to feel threatened by people who are very different from them, and no amount of explaining the value of diversity to them will transcend their fears enough to e...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Emotion talk in the context of young people self-harming: facing the feelings in family therapy - Rogers A, Schmidt P.
This article describes the use of emotion talk in the context of using a manualised approach to family therapy where the presenting problem is self-harm. Whilst we understand that there is an internal aspect to emotion, we also consider emotions to be soci... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Multidimensional family therapy: evidence base for transdiagnostic treatment outcomes, change mechanisms, and implementation in community settings - Liddle HA.
This article summarizes the 30+-year evidence base of Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), a comprehensive treatment for youth substance abuse and antisocial behaviors. FINDINGS from four types of MDFT studies are discussed: hybrid efficacy/effe... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Book Review: Understanding Mental Illness
As a licensed marriage and family therapist and mental health writer, I am always interested in new books about mental health and the way we treat those with mental illnesses, so it was with interest that I picked up Marianne Richards’s self-published new book, Understanding Mental Illness: Comprehensive and Jargon Free 6th Edition. While Richards does give a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness, the ways in which we as a society often treat it, and the defining characteristics of the most common diagnoses, I was left wondering just how this information might apply to someone who suffers from a men...
Source: Psych Central - August 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Claire Nana Tags: Book Reviews Disorders Education General Psychology Psychotherapy Self-Help Treatment Body Dysmorphic Disorder books on mental illness books on the history of mental illness Compulsive Disorder Family therapy Hippocrates Marian Source Type: news
The influence of living situations on family therapy involvement among youth adjudicated of a sexual crime - Yoder JR.
Clinical and research professionals working with youth who have sexually offended have increasingly advocated for community-based care. However, other scholars have noted the appropriateness of residential placements for many youth. Research is inconclusiv... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 26, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Why Do Teens Cut and What Can Parents Do To Help?
McLean Hospital Guest Blogger
Michael R. Hollander, PhD
Approximately 14 to 18 percent of high school students and between 12 to 35 percent of college students in the United States engage in some form of self-injurious behavior at least once. The age of onset often occurs in early adolescence, between the ages of 11 and 14.
While self-harm is of serious concern for parents, families, and teachers, it's important to know that when the right approach and treatment is provided in a timely manner, this behavior is highly treatable. But kids who self-harm need treatment right away. Giving in to pleas for more time and delayin...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fear of faith: a reflection on 'Family therapy and fundamentalism' - Rivett M.
This short essay explores some of the assumptions enbedded within 'Family therapy and fundamentalism' from the perspective of a person of faith. It questions the usefulness of the term 'fundamentalist families' and highlights the systemic interaction betwe... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Navigating critical theory and postmodernism: social justice and therapist power in family therapy - D'Arrigo-Patrick J, Hoff C, Knudson-Martin C, Tuttle A.
The family therapy field encourages commitment to diversity and social justice, but offers varying ideas about how to attentively consider these issues. Critical informed models advocate activism, whereas postmodern informed models encourage multiple persp... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 26, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
The cost-effectiveness of family/family-based therapy for treatment of externalizing disorders, substance use disorders and delinquency: a systematic review - Goorden M, Schawo SJ, Bouwmans-Frijters CA, van der Schee E, Hendriks VM, Hakkaart-van Roijen L.
BACKGROUND: Family therapy and family-based treatment has been commonly applied in children and adolescents in mental health care and has been proven to be effective. There is an increased interest in economic evaluations of these, often expensive, interve... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Father Loss And More
Conclusion: The father plays a major role in who we are and who we become; his absence may occupy the center stage of a person's life. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Evolution of functional family therapy as an evidence-based practice for adolescents with disruptive behavior problems - Robbins MS, Alexander JF, Turner CW, Hollimon A.
This article summarizes the evolution of functional family therapy (FFT) based upon four decades of clinical practice and scientific scrutiny through research evidence. FFT research has evolved from an initial focus upon clinical process research, which ex... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 26, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Healing together family therapy resource and strategies for increasing attachment security in individuals engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury - Teague-Palmieri EB, Gutierrez D.
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has become increasingly common among teens and emerging adults. An individual may engage in NSSI for a variety of reasons from coping with emotional pain or as a distraction from difficult thoughts and painful memories. Altho... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Psychotherapy & Other Non-Medication Treatments for Schizophrenia
While most treatment of schizophrenia involves one or more antipsychotic medications, other treatments have also proven effective and vital to helping a person with schizophrenia maintain their recovery. Medications seem to work best on certain symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations, delusions, and incoherence.
Even when people with schizophrenia are relatively free of psychotic symptoms, many still have extraordinary difficulty with communication, motivation, self-care, and establishing and maintaining relationships with others. Moreover, because patients with schizophrenia frequently become ill during the crit...
Source: Psych Central - May 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jane Framingham, Ph.D. Tags: Disorders Psychotherapy Schizophrenia Self-Help Treatment helping schizophrenia psychotherapy for schizophrenia rehabilitation for schizophrenia schizophrenia self-help self-help for schizophrenia Source Type: news
Bisexual and questioning young women more susceptible to depression, Drexel study finds
(Drexel University) Looking into the differences in mental health symptoms experienced by those in the LGBQ community, a team from Drexel's Department of Couple and Family Therapy found key disparities in the risks faced by certain groups. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
