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Sep 10, 2024 · What IS FFT? Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is an evidence-based treatment model that helps families change their interactions to address youth and young adult behavioral or emotional issues. It views these behaviors as ingrained within the family system rather than solely as an individual problem.
Norifumi Fujita's 9 research works with 786 citations and 1,333 reads, including: Paper 214: The Comparison of the Two-year Outcome of Three ACL Reconstruction Techniques
- Pre-Treatment Preparation
- The First Phase: Engagement in Change
- The Second Phase: Motivation For Change
- Change Focus Techniques
- Change Meaning Techniques
- Assessment in Early Phases (Engagement and Motivation): Relational Functions
- Transitioning Between Engagement & Motivation Into Behavior Change
- Specific Elements of Behavior Change
- Basic Parenting Principles/Techniques
- The Generalization Phase of FFT
Prior to seeing or contacting the family, therapists engage in linking with referral sources, gathering information about the youth and family, and preparing/planning for the initial contact. The therapist, upon receipt of a referral, first contacts the referral source(s) to acknowledge the referral and to solicit all information (including impress...
The Engagement Phase begins prior to first contact, and quickly blends into the Motivation Phase. Engagement refers to any activity that can facilitate the family’s willingness to attend early sessions (or allow an interventionist into their home). Engagement also involves creating an initial positive reaction to the therapist. These activities can...
The Engagement Phase consists primarily of transitory activities that are designed to get the process of intervention “off on the right foot.” As direct contact is initiated in the first session, FFT therapists quickly move to more powerful motivational interventions. The primary objective of the Motivation Phase of intervention is to create a moti...
Change focus interventions are intended to disrupt negativity and unproductive family interactions by shifting, stopping, or redirecting communications. Change focus interventions are relatively simple interventions to implement, and are often used when the therapist is still getting a sense of how to effectively intervene with the family, but reco...
Like change focus interventions, change meaning techniques are intended to disrupt negativity and unproductive family interactions. However, change meaning techniques involve attempts to change the meaning of how family members understand themselves and each other. The goal of change meaning techniques is not cognitive change, but rather is to crea...
By the time FFT receives referrals for dysfunctional behaviors, the relational functions expressed in important relationships are usually well established and easy to recognize; rarely do adolescent disruptive behaviors or parenting “styles,” nor “challenges” emerge “all of a sudden.” As a result, FFT therapists look for stable patterns, first asse...
Over the years, FFT has utilized two broad classes of techniques for Behavior Change. The first class is represented by general skill-buildingprocesses such as communication training, problem solving, and conflict management techniques. We use these techniques in almost all families, and they represent skill development, which is useful to family m...
Communication Training.Communication training is commonly used in FFT. In some families, the training represents a focus on a true skill deficit; family members do not know the basics of interpersonal communication. In many other families; however, family members know how to communicate (e.g., some have been effective teachers, professors, clergy, ...
Forehand et al. (1979), Patterson (1974), Patterson and Reid (1973), Webster-Stratton (1992), Chamberlain and Mihalic (1998) and many others provide technical descriptions of numerous basic behavior change techniques and concepts. Positive reinforcement/praise, negative reinforcement, ignoring, distracting, clear limit-setting with consistent follo...
The FFT Therapist as “Family Case Manager.” Families are intertwined in a vast array of social, legal, cultural, economic, community, and other systems. FFT not only recognizes this fact, but also incorporates specific principles which govern the inclusion (as well as exclusion) of these systems in the treatment planning process. Unlike generic tre...
- James F. Alexander, Michael S. Robbins
- 1982
Functional family therapy (FFT) has a long history as a treatment model for youth and adolescent conduct problems, drug use, and other mental health concerns.
- Thomas L. Sexton
- 2019
This article offers a detailed exploration of Family Systems Therapy, including its core principles, key techniques, and their application to psychological conditions. Additionally, it reviews the approach’s criticisms and limitations and discusses its overall relevance and effectiveness.
May 12, 2016 · This paper examines the degree to which structural family therapy has adapted effectively to client families and professional demands of the twenty-first century.
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This paper describes accommodations that were implemented to support the global delivery of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in community-based settings during COVID-19. FFT is an evidence-based family therapy that has been used with youth and families in juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health, and school settings.
