Structural family therapy is a model of treatment based on systems theory that was developed primarily at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, under the leadership of Salvador Minuchin, over the last 15 years. The model’s distinctive features are its emphasis on structural change as the main goal of therapy, which acquires preeminence over the details of individual change, and the attention ...

While a number of States and communities are turning to punitive approaches to addressing juvenile crime, research indicates that such approaches, despite their high cost, are largely ineffective. Juvenile offenders removed from their families and communities eventually return, and unless their underlying behavioral problems have been treated effectively, these problems are likely to contribute...

Murray Bowen’s approach can be thought of as a first-generation approach.At its core, it is a classical psychodynamic approach that has been updated and informed by systems theory.To develop the early theories of family therapy, theorists frequently simply modified older theories to fit their newly developed systems paradigm.These modifications changed their unit of analysis from the individual...

Background: Floor time therapy is the center of Greenspan developmental model. In Family-based of this model, to enhance the abilities of the child, family functioning is set the objective as a general unit, the purpose of this study was developing a Family-based Floor Time Therapyand evaluating its effectiveness on the developmental profile of children with interactive disorders. Materials an...

Behavioral problems in adolescence rarely appear in isolation. Most commonly, problems occur in clusters that may include combinations of several problem behaviors, such as truancy, vandalism, gang participation and association with deviant peers, conflict with parents, poor academic performance and attendance, violence, drug use, risky sexual behaviors, and delinquency. The pervasiveness of be...