Clinical Applications of Evidence-Based Family Interventions
Jacqueline Corcoran
Abstract
This book reviews the evidence-based treatments relevant to family treatment in human services and social services settings. It addresses some of the main reasons families are seen in mental health and social service settings: child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct problems, substance use disorders, schizophrenia, depression, and dementia. For each problem area, a detailed case study provides step-by-step guidelines on how the evidence-based theory can be applied in practice. Interventions include psychoeducation, behavioral parent trai ... More
This book reviews the evidence-based treatments relevant to family treatment in human services and social services settings. It addresses some of the main reasons families are seen in mental health and social service settings: child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct problems, substance use disorders, schizophrenia, depression, and dementia. For each problem area, a detailed case study provides step-by-step guidelines on how the evidence-based theory can be applied in practice. Interventions include psychoeducation, behavioral parent training, solution-focused therapy, cognitive-behavioral treatment, structural family therapy, and multisystemic treatment.
Keywords:
evidence-based,
family therapy,
family treatment,
counseling,
psychotherapy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195149524 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149524.001.0001 |
