Advances in Family-Based Therapies with Adolescents

Описание: "Advances in Family-Based Therapy with Adolescents"

📅 Recorded September 26, 2025 | Hosted by The Melissa Institute via Zoom

🎤 Featured Speakers
• Dr. Daniel Santisteban

Family-based interventions are powerful in treating behavioral, substance use, and mental health presenting problems in adolescents and in strengthening family relationships. For diverse clients with unique life stressors and those whose cultural backgrounds emphasize a strong family orientation, these interventions are particularly attractive and ecologically valid.

Our Culturally Informed and Flexible Family-Based Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA) is a multi-component adaptive family treatment focused on reducing adolescent behavior problems (i.e., substance use, self-harm), working with culturally relevant themes (e.g., discrimination and acculturation stressors), and strengthening core family processes (e.g., parenting and family support).

Family treatments are most powerful and effective when they can mobilize protective and healing factors. It takes special skill to do this while avoiding some of common traps in family work. An important innovation is our online platform using simulated families so that we can help therapist learn and practice the skills needed to work effectively with Latine families. By building our own simulations, we can incorporate culture-related experiences and circumstances.

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