Home > Family therapies best for substance using teenagers.

Drug and Alcohol Findings. (2017) Family therapies best for substance using teenagers. Drug and Alcohol Findings Review Analysis, (5 May 2017),

[img]
Preview
PDF (Family therapies Family therapies best for substance using teenagers)
109kB

External website: http://findings.org.uk/docs/bulletins/Bull_05_05_1...

Multi-prong therapies centred on the family emerge as probably the most effective in this comprehensive and careful synthesis of the results of trials of non-residential programmes for substance using teenagers – but do the outcomes warrant the extra costs?

Key points from summary and commentary
• Studies included in the analysis were required to involve an identifiable non-residential treatment for substance use problems for patients aged between 12 and 20.
• Generally the substance use outcomes of the various distinct treatment types represented in the studies did not significantly differ
• The exception was family therapies, which returned the most convincing and consistent evidence of comparative effectiveness, but even here the evidence was too limited to support definitive conclusions


Repository Staff Only: item control page