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Family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems: the current evidence base
Author(s) -
Carr Alan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6427.12226
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , systemic therapy , neglect , psychology , family therapy , context (archaeology) , systematic review , psychotherapist , mental health , parent training , clinical psychology , psychiatry , intervention (counseling) , medicine , medline , paleontology , cancer , breast cancer , political science , law , biology
This review updates previous similar papers published in JFT in 2000, 2009 and 2014. It presents evidence from meta‐analyses, systematic literature reviews, narrative literature reviews and controlled trials for the effectiveness of systemic interventions for families of children and adolescents with common mental health problems and other difficulties. In this context, systemic interventions include both family therapy and other family‐based approaches such as parent training, or parent implemented behavioural programmes. The evidence supports the effectiveness of systemic interventions either alone or as part of multimodal programmes for sleep, feeding and attachment problems in infancy; recovery from child abuse and neglect; conduct problems, emotional problems, eating disorders, somatic problems, and first episode psychosis.