■ Family-based prevention and intervention program.
■ Successful in a variety of contexts used primarily to treat high-risk youth and their families.
■ The model allows for successful intervention in complex and multidimensional problems through culturally sensitive, flexibly structured clinical practice.
Treatment Goals
■ Identify the primary focus of intervention (the family)
■ Reflect an understanding that positive and negative behaviors both influence and are influenced by
multiple relational systems
■ Multisystemic prevention program
o focus on the multiple domains and systems within which adolescents and their families live.
o multilevel intervention
● treatment system
● family and individual functioning
● therapist as major components.
■ Works first to develop family members’ inner strengths and sense of being able to improve their situations.
■ Provide the family with a platform for change and future functioning that extends beyond the direct support of the therapist and other social systems.
■ Includes a systematic and multiphase intervention map
o Phase Task Analysis
● Forms the basis for responsive clinical decisions.
● Gives FFT a flexible structure by identifying treatment strategies with a high probability of success.
■ Flexibility extends to all family members and thereby results in effective moment-by-moment decisions in the intervention setting.
o Practice is both systematic and individualized.
■ Successful in a variety of contexts used primarily to treat high-risk youth and their families.
■ The model allows for successful intervention in complex and multidimensional problems through culturally sensitive, flexibly structured clinical practice.
Treatment Goals
■ Identify the primary focus of intervention (the family)
■ Reflect an understanding that positive and negative behaviors both influence and are influenced by
multiple relational systems
■ Multisystemic prevention program
o focus on the multiple domains and systems within which adolescents and their families live.
o multilevel intervention
● treatment system
● family and individual functioning
● therapist as major components.
■ Works first to develop family members’ inner strengths and sense of being able to improve their situations.
■ Provide the family with a platform for change and future functioning that extends beyond the direct support of the therapist and other social systems.
■ Includes a systematic and multiphase intervention map
o Phase Task Analysis
● Forms the basis for responsive clinical decisions.
● Gives FFT a flexible structure by identifying treatment strategies with a high probability of success.
■ Flexibility extends to all family members and thereby results in effective moment-by-moment decisions in the intervention setting.
o Practice is both systematic and individualized.
