title: Brief Strategic Family Therapy: implementing evidence-based models in community settings.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review a 40-year collaborative partnership between clinical researchers and clinicians, in developing, investigating and implementing Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT).
  
  
  METHODS
  First, to review theory, practice and studies related to this evidenced-based therapy intervention targeting adolescent drug abuse and delinquency. Second, to present the BSFT Implementation Model created for the BSFT intervention-a model that parallels many of the recommendations from the implementation science literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Specific challenges encountered during the BSFT implementation process are reviewed, along with ways of conceptualizing and addressing these challenges from a systemic perspective.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The BSFT implementation uses the same systemic principles and intervention techniques as those that underlie the BSFT clinical model. Building on our on-the-ground experiences, recommendations are proposed for advancing the field of implementation science.
authors.affiliation: a Public Health Sciences , University of Miami , Miami , FL , USA.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Szapocznik
authors.forename: Joan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Muir
authors.forename: Johnathan H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Duff
authors.forename: Seth J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: C Hendricks
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy
keywords: family therapy; implementation; intervention research