Family Therapy - Recovery Research Institute
Family Therapy involves the individual with a substance use disorder and at least one other person who is considered family. Therapy engages participants in applying behavioral strategies taught during sessions, and teaches participants new skills and understanding of not only each other, but of helpful and harmful behaviors that work to either ...
Involving family members in substance use disorder treatment can ...
Functional Family Therapy: This intervention approach places strong emphasis on the family dynamic and focuses on improving family communication and relationships as a catalyst for behavior change, especially for youth and adolescents. This intervention is also designed to improve the individual’s motivation for change. Behavioral Couples ...
Does Family Therapy for Adolescent Substance Users Also Help …
In the large multisite Cannabis Youth Treatment Study (N=600), a separate but related family therapy, Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), promoted reductions in adolescent substance use to the same degree as the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) and another treatment that combined motivational enhancement therapy (MET ...
Guide for Family Members – Recovery Research Institute
Family therapy for substance use disorder draws on the family’s strengths and resources to develop constructive strategies through the clarification of family roles, re-framing of behavior, teaching of management and coping skills, encouraging monitoring and boundary setting, creating re-intervention plans, and connecting families to ...
Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT) - Recovery Research Institute
Family members of individuals with an alcohol or other drug use disorder have the ability to reward abstinence. When one partner has a substance use disorder, couples often have extensive relationship problems that create high levels of dissatisfaction, aggression, and instability ( Fals-Stewart, O’Farrell, & Birchler, 2004 ).
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Therapies
Like other MET treatments, MET/CBT does not appear to enhance adolescent treatment outcomes any more than other active treatments, such as family therapy, or the Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA). Similarly, Motivational Interviewing-based interventions have been widely tested as strategies to reduce college student drinking.
Should I stay or should I go: Investigating characteristics of youth ...
Another meta-analysis found that adolescents in almost all types of outpatient treatment had improvements, with the largest found for those in family therapy (e.g., multidimensional family therapy) and mixed/group counseling (e.g., “talk therapy”).
Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches (CBT) - Recovery Research Institute
Psychologist Albert Ellis first alluded to specific concepts of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in the early 1950s, developing Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) and Rational-Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT), partly in reaction to psychoanalytic therapies, which had been practiced for decades before cognitive-behavioral approaches became a part ...
Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) - Recovery Research …
Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) The Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) is a psychosocial intervention for individuals with alcohol and other drug use disorders that has been adapted for several populations, including adolescents (the Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach; A-CRA) and family members of individuals resistant or reluctant to …
Pathways to Recovery - Recovery Research Institute
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA/A-CRA) Cognitive Behavioral Approaches (CBT) Contingency Management (CM) Relapse Prevention (RP/MBRP) Motivational Interviewing and Motivational Enhancement Therapies (MI/MET) Twelve-Step Facilitation (TSF) Behavioral Couples Therapy; Family Therapy