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Culturally relevant family‐based treatment for adolescent delinquency and substance abuse: understanding within‐session processes
Author(s) -
Cunningham Phillippe B.,
Foster Sharon L.,
Warner Sarah E.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20709
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , psychology , session (web analytics) , substance abuse , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , world wide web , computer science
Identifying psychotherapy processes that likely contribute to client outcome with ethnic minorities is a vital practice and research need, particularly within family‐focused, evidence‐based treatments (EBT) for youth with externalizing problems. Identifying process variables within a cross‐cultural context may improve the efficacy of EBTs by informing psychotherapists how to modify their behavior when working with ethnically diverse clients. The authors described one approach to the development of culturally competent psychotherapy, using an observational coding system comprising Afrocentric codes to investigate culturally relevant therapist behaviors. Qualitative examples illustrated the quantitative findings relating to therapist in‐session behavior that promote client engagement and positive responding during a midtreatment session of multisystemic therapy. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 66:1–17, 2010.