title: Family therapy with a depressed adolescent.
abstract: Families can have a significant influence on a child's mental health. Family therapy is a treatment modality that can be used alone or in combination with other treatment modalities. Family therapy strategies include psychodynamic, structural, strategic, and cognitive-behavioral schools. In this article the different schools are described and a case of a depressed teenager is used to illustrate how each type of family therapy is implemented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Broderick
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weston