Psychiatry related information on Family Therapy

• OBJECTIVE: The authors studied the efficacy of once-weekly psychotherapy, family therapy, or group therapy led by paraprofessionals among patients with cocaine use disorders [1].
• Depending on medical common sense and economic restrictions, the optimization and fine-tuning of lithium prophylaxis may be advisable in selected cases, including counseling, family therapy, cognitive therapy, well-being therapy, or interpersonal psychotherapy [2].
• Treatment consisted of sertraline combined with individual play therapy and family therapy, following which the patient reported modest improvement in symptoms of both disorders [3].
• A survey of the role of gender in family therapy training programs was conducted by the Women's Task Force of the American Family Therapy Association (AFTA) in order to determine the extent to which gender issues were included in the curriculum [4].

High impact information on Family Therapy

• Ras family therapy: Rab, Rho and Ral talk to the exocyst [5].
• METHODS: One hundred seven adolescents with major depressive disorder randomly assigned to 12 to 16 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy, systemic behavioral family therapy, or nondirective supportive therapy were evaluated for 2 years after the psychotherapy trial to document the subsequent course and predictors of major depressive disorder [6].
• Conditions involved one of two dose levels of fluphenazine enanthate (1 ml or 0.25 ml) and presence or absence of crisis-oriented family therapy [7].
• Family therapy is as effective for adults as for adolescents and appears to be a cost-effective adjunct to methadone maintenance [8].
• Patients were part of a project investigating the long-acting phenothiazine fluphenazine enanthate and crisis-oriented family therapy in a 6-week program of aftercare treatment for briefly hospitalized first admission acute schizophrenics [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Family Therapy

• SFAT-AM: Short Family Therapy in Ambulatory Medicine, has been developed with aim of offering solutions to this question [10].
• The Power Equity Guide: attending to gender in family therapy [11].
• The Progress Index for Family Therapy Programs, an instrument for measuring the relative level of involvement in family therapy by treatment programs, is presented [12].
• This study reports the findings of a phenomenological enquiry into the lived experience of 10 families who received Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT) as part of a training initiative in the West Midlands Health Region of the UK [13].
• A number of examples are offered--from the work of Milton Erickson on hypnosis and from nonhypnotic therapy sessions--that demonstrate the presence and usefulness of enthymemes in family therapy dialogue [14].

Gene context of Family Therapy

• OBJECTIVES: This review seeks to address the question of whether family therapy without medication can reduce the core symptoms of ADHD as compared to no treatment or standard treatment [15].
• A 'short family therapy' in schizophrenia, according to a specific systemic model (the 'Elementary Pragmatic Model' or EPM) with a strong paradoxical structure is presented [16].
• Family therapy in poorly controlled juvenile IDDM: effects on diabetic control, self-evaluation and behavioural symptoms [17].
• The first study included 32 children and used a randomised controlled treatment design comparing a CBT approach with conjoint family therapy and an eclectic approach [18].
• Of these, 14 families underwent a psycho-educative intervention programme called BFT (Behavioural Family Therapy) [19].

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