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- Title
An outcome evaluation of Functional Family Therapy for court‐involved youth.
- Authors
Celinska, Katarzyna; Sung, Hung‐En; Kim, Chunrye; Valdimarsdottir, Margret
- Abstract
This article presents results of a study on the effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy (FFT), a family intervention designed to prevent delinquency. The sample includes 155 court‐involved youth. This study employs two complementary outcomes: court‐obtained data on recidivism and the clinical data on clients' psychosocial functioning, the Strengths and Needs Assessment (SNA). Adolescents in the treatment and in the comparison groups experienced statistically significant improvements on the majority of the SNA domains. Although youths in the treatment group improved more, the differences between the groups were not statistically significant. Multivariate analysis showed that youths in FFT had significantly lower odds of recidivism as measured by reconvictions for drug offenses, property offenses and technical violations. The results suggest that FFT was effective in reducing recidivism, however, such reductions cannot be attributed to improvements in the SNA scores.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of juvenile delinquency; FAMILY psychotherapy; MULTIVARIATE analysis; HEALTH outcome assessment; RECIDIVISM
- Publication
Journal of Family Therapy, 2019, Vol 41, Issue 2, p251
- ISSN
0163-4445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-6427.12224