TY - JOUR
T1 - Engaging Adolescent Drug Abusers and Their Families in Treatment
T2 - A Strategic Structural Systems Approach
AU - Szapocznik, José
AU - Perez-Vidal, Angel
AU - Brickman, Andrew L.
AU - Foote, Franklin H.
AU - Santisteban, Daniel
AU - Hervis, Olga
AU - Kurtines, William M.
PY - 1988/8
Y1 - 1988/8
N2 - This article presents evidence for the effectiveness of a strategy for engaging adolescent drug users and their families in therapy. The intervention method is based on strategic, structural, and systems concepts. To overcome resistance, the identified pattern of interactions that interferes with entry into treatment is restructured. Subjects were 108 Hispanic families in which an adolescent was suspected of, or was observed, using drugs. Subjects were randomly assigned to a strategic structural-systems engagement (experimental) condition or to an engagement-as-usual (control) condition. Subjects in the experimental condition were engaged at a rate of 93% compared with subjects in the control condition, who were engaged at a rate of 42%. Seventy-seven percent of subjects in the experimental condition completed treatment compared with 25% of subjects in the control condition.
AB - This article presents evidence for the effectiveness of a strategy for engaging adolescent drug users and their families in therapy. The intervention method is based on strategic, structural, and systems concepts. To overcome resistance, the identified pattern of interactions that interferes with entry into treatment is restructured. Subjects were 108 Hispanic families in which an adolescent was suspected of, or was observed, using drugs. Subjects were randomly assigned to a strategic structural-systems engagement (experimental) condition or to an engagement-as-usual (control) condition. Subjects in the experimental condition were engaged at a rate of 93% compared with subjects in the control condition, who were engaged at a rate of 42%. Seventy-seven percent of subjects in the experimental condition completed treatment compared with 25% of subjects in the control condition.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-006X.56.4.552
DO - 10.1037/0022-006X.56.4.552
M3 - Article
C2 - 3198813
AN - SCOPUS:0023810817
VL - 56
SP - 552
EP - 557
JO - Journal of Consulting Psychology
JF - Journal of Consulting Psychology
SN - 0022-006X
IS - 4
ER -
