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Introducing Evidence‐Based Family Assessment and Therapy in Child and Youth Mental Health Services: Applying Systemic Principles to Maintain, Sustain and Build Capacity
Author(s) -
Wagner Ingrid,
Munt Glenn,
Briner Peta
Publication year - 2006
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.1467-8438.2006.tb00721.x
Subject(s) - mental health , family therapy , context (archaeology) , project commissioning , mental health service , work (physics) , publishing , systemic therapy , service (business) , psychology , public relations , psychiatry , medicine , political science , business , engineering , marketing , mechanical engineering , paleontology , cancer , breast cancer , law , biology
The purpose of this article is to overview the context of the mental health service in which we work, and family therapy's status prior to and after the impact of changes wrought by the introduction of the National Mental Health Policy . We then explore some key issues that we think contribute to the persistence of the occlusion of family therapy in child psychiatric services; and the strategies that we developed and are continuing to develop to support change. Finally, we describe the use of a family assessment instrument that we believe is central to our change strategy.