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8.4 - Evaluation of systemic interventions

from Part VIII - Research practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Jennifer M. Brown
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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Systemic psychotherapists work therapeutically with individuals, couples and families, and offer consultation and systemic interventions with teams, agencies and organizations. The overwhelming findings from the research reviews and meta-analytic studies is that family therapy works compared to untreated control groups, with some demonstrated superiority to standard and individual treatments for certain disorders and populations. This chapter provides a list of people and problems who have found to benefit both clinically and significantly from the couples and family systemic psychotherapies compared to no psychotherapy; the list includes marital/couple distress and conflict, and outpatient depressed women in distressed marriages. Family therapy seems to be more cost-effective than standard inpatient/residential treatment for schizophrenia and severe adolescent conduct disorders and delinquency. Visits by family members to primary healthcare practitioners were reduced following family therapy intervention. The chapter ends with a discussion on the methodological problems and innovations which set the challenge for the future.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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