The evolution of an integrative family therapy for substance-abusing adolescents: Toward the mutual enhancement of research and practice.

Nonviolent Resistance: Helping Caregivers Reduce Problematic Behaviors in Children and Adolescents

“…For example, strategic therapists (e.g., Madanes, 1991) use both direct assignments and reframing to help families break out of negative cycles of behavior. Cognitive behavioral family therapists (e.g., Epstein, Schlesinger, & Dryden, 1988) target family related cognitive schema that impact interpersonal feelings and maintain negative family dynamics, and interventions targeting substance abuse urge family members not to respond in kind to inappropriate or violent behaviors (Meyers, Miller, Hill, & Tonigan, 1998; Piercy & Frankel, 1989). …”

Family treatment of alcohol and drug abuse.

“…In this section, we will describe a selective, integrative model of the stages of family therapy (Heath, Stanton, & Atkinson, 1995) that synthesizes the literature on family therapy with alcoholic adults (e.g., Berenson, 1976aBerenson, , 1976bBerenson, , 1979Berenson, , 1986Davis, 1987;OFarrell, 1989;Steinglass et al, 1987) and drugabusing adolescents and young adults (e.g., Kosten, Jalali, & Kleber, 1982-1983Piercy & Frankel, 1989;Stanton & Landau-Stanton, 1990;Stanton & Todd, 1992;Stanton et al, 1982), and emphasizes the relatively high degree of consensus among these authors. The literature cited in this discussion of stages offers a rich collection of clear and specific family therapy methods.…”

“…Establish alliances with senior family members. In the case of an adolescent or very young adult, especially, treatment is unlikely to succeed or hold up unless parental figures and even grandparents are involved (Piercy & Frankel, 1989;Stanton et al, 1982). Assume a nonblaming stance toward the entire family (Stanton & Todd, 1992).…”

A Smoking Cessation Project for African American Women: Implications for Relational Research.

“…Significant effects from this protocol have been demonstrated with medication adherence (Doherty, Schrott, Metcalf, & Iasiello-Vailas, 1983); change in high risk behaviors in cardiac patients (Hoebel, 1976); adherence to treatment regime in dialysis patients (Steidl, Finkelstein, Wexler, et al, 1980); control of hypertension (Earp, Ory, & Strogatz, 1982); and successful treatment of obesity (Barbarin & Tirado, 1984). Family intervention has been shown to be of significant value in reducing an individual’s addiction to substances (Piercy & Frankel, 1989) and superior to individual or group treatment in the rate of recidivism (Piercy & Frankel, 1989; Stanton & Todd, 1982).…”