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Child‐Focused Family Therapy: Behavioural Family Therapy Versus Brief Family Therapy
Author(s) -
Smith William,
Sayger Thomas,
Szykula Steven
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1999.tb00361.x
Subject(s) - cbcl , family therapy , child behavior checklist , psychology , checklist , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , cognitive psychology
We examined the effectiveness of behavioural family therapy (following the treatment agenda outlined in Fleischman, Horne and Arthur, 1983) and brief family therapy (following the procedures outlined in Fisch, Weakland and Segal, 1985), in the treatment of child psychological disorders. The parents of the 49 children referred to the outpatient unit of a children's hospital completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) (Achenbach and Edelbrock, 1983). Three scales of the CBCL were examined to assess the effectiveness of the two therapeutic approaches pre‐ to post‐treatment. Significant pre‐ and post‐treatment differences were found for behavioural family therapy on the Internalizing, Externalizing, and Sum T scales and for brief family therapy on the Internalizing and Sum T scales. Sum T scales represent the sum of scores across all sub‐scales of the CBCL. Neither treatment was found to be more effective than the other.