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The effectiveness of family therapy and systemic interventions for child‐focused problems
Author(s) -
Carr Alan
Publication year - 2009
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/j.1467-6427.2008.00451.x
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , context (archaeology) , encopresis , psychology , anxiety , family therapy , clinical psychology , psychiatry , systemic therapy , child abuse , psychotherapist , intervention (counseling) , medicine , enuresis , poison control , suicide prevention , paleontology , environmental health , biology , cancer , breast cancer
This review updates a similar paper published in the Journal of Family Therapy in 2001. It presents evidence from meta‐analyses, systematic literature reviews and controlled trials for the effectiveness of systemic interventions for families of children and adolescents with various difficulties. In this context, systemic interventions include both family therapy and other family‐based approaches such as parent training. The evidence supports the effectiveness of systemic interventions either alone or as part of multimodal programmes for sleep, feeding and attachment problems in infancy; child abuse and neglect; conduct problems (including childhood behavioural difficulties, ADHD, delinquency and drug abuse); emotional problems (including anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar disorder and suicidality); eating disorders (including anorexia, bulimia and obesity); and somatic problems (including enuresis, encopresis, recurrent abdominal pain, and poorly controlled asthma and diabetes).