Carroll County Local Management Board---a premier FTTIM implementation site---and Carroll County Youth Service Bureau Inc., win the SAMHSA 2009 Science and Service Award by showcasing their successful implementation of Brief Strategic Family Therapy because they believe in healthy families. See the happy faces below:
Angela Chmar, Patsy Shaffer, Olga Hervis (FTTIM), Bobby Jarrett, Lynn Davis, Diana Vaughan and Carol Bolles
The BSFT Engagement Model (Structural Systems Engagement)-engages and maintains families in therapy
The most oft heard question among clinicians and providers in the mental health, juvenile justice and substance abuse field goes something like this: “We know that family therapy has proved to be very effective but, how do you get all the family members to come when they don’t want to?”
As part of the development, refinement and testing of BSFT, we set out in the mid 1980’s to design, refine and twice test a model for engagement of resistant families. We were successful in experimentally proving its efficacy. A later replication by FSU MFT Doctoral students proved once more the effectiveness of the BSFT Engagement Model.
Both the FSU study as well as our own "Life Enhancement Program" study for HIV-infected gay males proved that the BSFT Engagement model (SSE) is successful when used to engage and retain families into a therapeutic intervention other than BSFT.
The curriculum includes: • Theoretical foundations of the Model • Reducing Resistance from the Point of Referral and Intake • Diagnosing Resistance Systemically • Mapping Resistant Patterns • Intervening to Overcome Resistance • Forming Sequential Alliances
This workshop will present our Engagement Model via an interactive PowerPoint presentation, class exercises, role play and viewing and analysis of family videotapes.
Citations:
Szapocznik, J., Perez Vidal, A., Hervis, O. E., Brickman, A.L. & Kurtines, W. M. (1989). Innovations in family therapy: Strategies for overcoming resistance to treatment. In R. A. Wells & V.J. Giannetti (Eds.) Handbook of Brief Psychotherapies. New York: Plenum Publishing Company.
Szapocznik, J., Perez Vidal, A., Brickman, A., Foote, F.H., Santisteban, D., Hervis, O. E., & Kurtines, W. M. (1988). Engaging adolescent drug abusers and their families into treatment: A strategic structural systems approach. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56 (4), 552-557. [Reprinted in Annual Review of Addictions Research and Treatment, 1991, 331-336.]
Kaminsky, S., Kurtines, W., Hervis, O. E., Blaney, N., Millon, C., & Szapocznik, J., (1990). Life enhancement counseling with HIV infected Hispanic gay men. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 12 (2), May 1990, 177-195
