"What Is Therapy?" A Therapist-Developed Intervention to Reduce Missed Appointments in Community Mental Health
In: Social work in mental health: the journal of behavioral and psychiatric social work, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 1-11
ISSN: 1533-2993
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In: Social work in mental health: the journal of behavioral and psychiatric social work, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 1-11
ISSN: 1533-2993
In: Research on social work practice, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 294-303
ISSN: 1552-7581
Objective: This pilot study examined the effect of structural family therapy (SFT) on children's impairment and depressive symptomatology and mothers' depressive symptomatology and anxiety for 31 families served by a community mental health clinic. Method: A one group predesign/postdesign, with a baseline and two follow-up time points, was used. Results: A series of repeated measures analyses of variance showed significant improvement for mothers' depression, F(2, 36) = 6.93, p = .003, η2 = .278, and anxiety, F(2, 34) = 6.44, p = .004, η2 = .275. Mothers' ratings of their children's impairment significantly improved, F(2, 42) = 6.27, p = .005, η2 = .270, though children's self-rated impairment and depressive symptomatology did not change. Results were confirmed using random regression analyses. Conclusion: SFT has promise for simultaneously addressing mothers' and children's needs in community mental health settings. However, structural barriers impacting feasibility were identified and discussed.