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Empirically Supported Family‐Based Treatments for Conduct Disorder and Delinquency in Adolescents
Author(s) -
Henggeler Scott W.,
Sheidow Ashli J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00244.x
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , fidelity , family therapy , psychology , quality (philosophy) , applied behavior analysis , sustainability , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , computer science , telecommunications , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , autism , biology , physics , quantum mechanics
Several family‐based treatments of conduct disorder and delinquency in adolescents have emerged as evidence‐based and, in recent years, have been transported to more than 800 community practice settings. These models include multisystemic therapy, functional family therapy, multidimensional treatment foster care, and, to a lesser extent, brief strategic family therapy. In addition to summarizing the theoretical and clinical bases of these treatments, their results in efficacy and effectiveness trials are examined with particular emphasis on any demonstrated capacity to achieve favorable outcomes when implemented by real‐world practitioners in community practice settings. Special attention is also devoted to research on purported mechanisms of change as well as the long‐term sustainability of outcomes achieved by these treatment models. Importantly, we note that the developers of each of the models have developed quality assurance systems to support treatment fidelity and youth and family outcomes; and the developers have formed purveyor organizations to facilitate the large‐scale transport of their respective treatments to community settings nationally and internationally.