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In Multidimensional Family Therapy, Dr. Howard A. Liddle demonstrates this integrative, empirically supported approach for working with families of adolescents with behavior and substance abuse problems. Multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) protocols guide therapists in assessing and intervening simultaneously in developmentally critical domains of a teen's and family's life. Emotions, cognitive processes, and behavior are interconnected and are all addressed in MDFT. Adolescent problems such as drug abuse and delinquency are multidimensional in etiology and current manifestation, and therefore attempted remedies and therapist behavior must be multidimensional as well. As a multisystems model, MDFT clinicians work individually with the adolescent and the parent, with the family as a whole to facilitate new relationships, and with family members in relation to sources of ongoing influence such as school and juvenile justice systems to address current functioning and new solutions for the adolescent. In this session, Dr. Liddle works with a 15-year-old boy, recently diagnosed with ADHD and depression, who seeks a better relationship with his father. Dr. Liddle meets with the adolescent client and his mother to help them move beyond previous therapy to make changes in their lives.
Multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) is a family-based treatment developed for adolescents with drug and behavior problems. MDFT evolved over the past 17 years within a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded research program designed to develop and evaluate family-based drug abuse treatment for adolescents. This approach has been recognized as one of a new generation of multicomponent, theoretically derived, and empirically supported drug abuse treatments for adolescents. This multidimensional perspective seeks symptom reduction and enhancement of prosocial and appropriate developmental functions by facilitating adaptive developmental events and processes in several domains of functioning.
Howard A. Liddle, EdD, ABPP (Family Psychology), received his doctorate in education in 1974 at Northern Illinois University. He is director of the Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse and professor in the departments of epidemiology and public health, psychology, and counseling psychology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His research program began in 1985 and addresses the development, testing, refinement, and dissemination of a family-based treatment for adolescent substance abuse. This treatment model, multidimensional family therapy (MDFT), has been recognized as an "exemplary" or "best practice" model by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's "Strengthening Families" initiative, and as an empirically supported treatment in both the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) publication, Principles of Effective Drug Treatment, and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's Treatment Improvement Protocol Series volume, Adolescent Substance Abuse. MDFT has been transported to clinics around the U.S. and in six European countries. Dr. Liddle was the founding editor of the Journal of Family Psychology in 1987, and he is also known for his work in the family therapy training and supervision area. His 1988 book, Handbook of Family Therapy Training and Supervision, remains a classic textbook in that specialty.
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