There are a number of such therapies, including multidimensional family therapy (MDFT). Pro Mente (youth care Kärtnen; head dr. Georg Spiel) is considering implementing MDFT in Austria. Last week, dr. Spiel organized a symposium on these family appoaches. In Wien.
Henk Rigter
In the U.S.A.: Child-Parent Psychotherapy which is within a psychodynamic framework is a manualized, evidence-based treatment for multi-problem families with violence exposure (see Lieberman AF et al.,. 2005). The David Olds homevisiting model was also designed for high-risk teen moms and infants.
Dear Daniel
which forms of therapeutic home based treatments are used in Switzerland?
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Egon
Dear Egon,
Are you thinking of families with young children or with adolescents? If (also) adolescents, do check out Phénix, youth care treatment centre in Geneva, chief therapist: Philip Nielsen.
Henk Rigter
Dear Henk
I intend to compare therapeutic homebased treatments in different countries who deal with families that exhibit structural, dynamic, and social characteristics that could lead to an increased risk of vulnerability for the children and adolescents.
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Egon
Dear Egon,
I guess you are interested in mental/behavioural treatment outcomes of home-based programmes.
Evidence based programmes that are 100% home-based, are rare. The David Olds programme Daniel was mentioning is a good exception, but has not been implemented widely in Europe.
Nowadays, so-called systems therapies include sessions at the family's home, in addition to sessions at the office. It is possible to do all sessions at home or near the home.
The systems therapies best supported by evidence, and best disseminated across Europe (although unevenly and not everywhere) are MDFT and MST. Both MDFT and MST have positive effects on substance abuse, criminality, truancy, mental/behavioural co-morbidity.
MDFT and MST have been evaluated in numerous systematic literature reviews and by many accreditation agencies and professional societies.
Example of one such review (from Germany):
Von Sydow, K., Retzlaff, R., Beher, S., Haun, M.W., & Schweitzer, J. (2013). The efficacy of systemic therapy for externalizing disorders of childhood and adolescence: a meta-content analysis of 46 randomized trials. Family Process, doi: 10.1111/famp.12047.
Best
Henk
Dear Henk
MDFT and MST and the publication of Sydow et al. 2013 are familiar to me. Thank you.
Do you know other approaches which are evaluated or treatments whose effectiveness has not been evaluated but are used in patient care in Europe, North America, South America or Asia or in the Netherlands?
Greetings
Egon
Two more programs are FFT (Functional Family Therapy) and BSFT. BSFT is not wide-spread. FFT is being practiced in Europe, but in fewer countries and on a smaller scale than MDFT and MST.
Dear Henk
Thank you. Do you know something about the applied treatments in th Netherlands?
Egon
The therapies Marizela refers to are family based adolescent treatment programmes. (Also called: systems therapies). One should be added to her list: MDFT (multidimensional family). MDFT is quite prevalent in the USA, the Netherlands and Finland, is gearing up in France, and has some roots in Belgium, Estonia, Germany and Switzerland.
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