Multisystemic Treatment of Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents - Hardcover

Henggeler, Scott W.; Schoenwald, Sonja K.; Borduin, Charles M.; Rowland, Melisa D.; Cunningham, Phillippe B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572301066 ISBN 13: 9781572301061

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1998

Synopsis

This comprehensive guide provides extensive clinical description of the Multisystemic Treatment (MST) approach for treating youths with serious antisocial behavior. A proven alternative to expensive and often ineffective out-of-home placement, MST is a family- and community-based treatment. It focuses on ameliorating the known determinants of antisocial behavior within the young person's family, peer, and school networks. Nine core principles comprise the parameters for the book's flexible, team-based intervention framework, which targets such areas as promoting family strengths and resiliencies, removing youths from antisocial peer groups, enhancing school performance, and developing indigenous social support systems. The book features a wealth of illustrative case material and is extensively documented with findings from controlled outcome studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Scott W. Henggeler, PhD

Sonja K. Schoenwald, PhD

Charles M. Borduin, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia

Melisa D. Rowland, MD

Phillippe B. Cunningham, PhD, Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

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I. Introduction 1. Empirical, onceptual, and Philosophical Bases of MST 2. Clinical Foundations of MST: Nine Treatment Principles, Home-Based Model of Service Delivery, and Guidelines for Clinical Supervision II. Clinical Procedures 3. Assessment of Family Functioning 4. Family Interventions 5. Changing Relations with Peers 6. Promoting Academic and Social Competence in School Settings 7. When and How to Conduct Individually Oriented Interventions 8. Family Linkages with Community Supports III. Outcomes and Policy 9. Outcomes of MST: Findings from Controlled Evaluations Epilogue: Policy Implications of the Effectiveness of MST

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1572301066
• ISBN 13: 9781572301061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287