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Family Therapy and Other Family Intervention-Based Efforts

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Families with Adolescents

Part of the book series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development ((ARAD))

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Abstract

In many ways, the history of family therapy is the history of interventions that target families with adolescents, as many early family therapists were focused on adolescent-oriented issues that were being seen for the first time within the context of the family. This chapter covers a number of interventions targeting families with adolescents that have received sizable empirical attention over the past 25 years, including brief strategic family therapy, functional family therapy, multidimensional family therapy, and multisystemic therapy. A brief summary of each approach is given, including information regarding its theoretical foundations, and is followed by an overview of the empirical attention that each of these models has been given to date.

In addition to these major modalities of family therapy, attention is paid to a number of other forms of family-based interventions that also have received empirical attention during this same time period, including Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, attachment-based family therapy, and ecologically based family therapy.

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    Stephen M. Gavazzi

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    Ji-Young Lim

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Gavazzi, S.M., Lim, JY. (2023). Family Therapy and Other Family Intervention-Based Efforts. In: Families with Adolescents. Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43407-5_11

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