Residential Youth Care Combined with Systemic Interventions: Exploring Relationships between Family-Centered Care and Outcomes

Family-centered care, in terms of parental involvement and family-centered staff attitude behavior during placement secure residential youth is increasingly being combined with systemic interventions. Little known, however, about this combination care This study assessed whether levels or predicted outcomes We first the full sample families receiving interventions thereafter a strong evidence base (Multidimensional Family Therapy, Multisystemic Therapy [specializing treatment individuals an intellectual disability/with problem sexual behavior], Relational [MDFT, MST(-ID/-PSB), RGT]) less (Attachment Based Flexible Assertive Community Treatment [FACT], FamilyFACT, Forensic Ambulant Systemic [ABFT, (Family)FACT, FAST, ST]). Results revealed that higher family empowerment longer duration intervention. Higher more distress, shorter Combinations different bases resulted outcomes. Future research needed to establish which components contribute adolescent