Family-Based Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use.
Adolescent substance use is a major risk factor for negative outcomes, including substance dependence later in life, criminal behavior, school problems, mental health disorders, injury, and death. This article provides a user-friendly, clinically focused, and pragmatic review of current and evidence-based family treatments, including multisystemic therapy, multidimensional family therapy, functional family therapy, brief strategic family therapy, ecologically based family therapy, family behavior therapy, culturally informed flexible family treatment for adolescents, and strengths-oriented family therapy. Outcomes, treatment parameters, adolescent characteristics, and implementation factors are reviewed.
Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1120 Northwest 14th Street, CRB Room 910, Miami, FL 33136, USA. Electronic address: vhorigian@med.miami.edu.
Viviana E
VE
Horigian
Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1120 Northwest 14th Street, CRB Room 1069A, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Austen R
AR
Anderson
Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1120 Northwest 14th Street, CRB Room 1020, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
José
J
Szapocznik
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*
Behavioral interventions; Evidence-based treatment; Externalizing problems; Family therapy; Substance use