title: Toward a developmental family therapy: the clinical utility of research on adolescence.
abstract: Tremendous advances have been made in our understanding of the intrapersonal, interpersonal, familial, and contextual characteristics and processes that contribute to adaptive as well as maladaptive developmental outcomes with high-risk and clinically referred adolescents. This empirical knowledge base offers clinically rich opportunities for systematic treatment development. An important step in this process is distinguishing which research findings in basic science areas such as developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology might have clinical relevance. Toward this goal, we review relevant but selective research in areas that are central to clinical work with adolescents (parent-adolescent relationship, biological aspects, and affect and cognition), and we offer examples of how basic research in these areas can inform treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101, USA. hliddle@med.miami.edu
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Liddle
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rowe
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Diamond
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Sessa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ettinger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012106:Research; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology