Low-Income Families With Potential Adolescent Gang Involvement: A Structural Community Family Therapy Integration Model

Caregiver Type and Gang Involvement: A Comparison of Female and Male Gang Members

“…However, new family-focused gang programs could be developed to specifically aid in reducing the likelihood of gang-joining and assist with desistance among gang-involved girls and boys. For example, developing a gender-focused gang program utilizing a Structural Community Family Therapy Model could be quite beneficial (McNeil et al 2013). This type of model specifically focuses on dynamics in the home related to family structure, income, and parenting.…”

Psychological and criminogenic factors underlying gangsterism among Indians in Malaysia from the perspective of ex-gangsters and police personnel

“…Families experiencing multiple difficulties such as economic deprivation, family separation, bereavement, domestic violence, imprisonment, and alcohol and substance misuse; appear to contribute to an individual's negative, harmful ways of thinking and acting. According to McNeil, Herschberger, and Nedela (2013), and Gilman et al (2014), youths may join gangs because of its supportive features that youths cannot obtain in their own families. In some instances, older male family members were the catalyst for youths to join gangs (Robb, Featherstone, Ruxton, & Ward, 2017).…”

Families and community-based programs: Characteristics, engagement, and dissemination.

“…To address how "communitybased" is concept ualized, a literature search was conducted to identify family programs, listing those that had been evaluated in a randomized control trial and that had empirical literature that used "community" in the title. The results of this search included: The Incredible Years (Kleve et al, 2011;see Volume 3, Chapter 21, this handbook), the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P; Sanders, Turner, & McWilliam, 2016; see Volume 3, Chapter 25, this handbook), the Strong African American Families Program (Kogan et al, 2016;Murry & Brody, 2004), Structural Family Therapy (McNeil, Herschberger, & Nedela, 2013), Multiple Family Group Therapy (Saunders, 1975; see Volume 3, Chapter 10, this handbook), Functional Family Therapy (Darnell & Schuler, 2015;Sexton & Turner, 2011; see Volume 3, Chapter 11, this handbook), Medical Family Therapy (McDaniel, Doherty, & Hepworth, 2014;Mendenhall, Berge, & Doherty, 2014; see Volume 3, Chapter 12, this handbook), Multisystemic Family Therapy (see Volume 3, Chapter 13, this handbook), and Parent-Child Iinteraction Therapy (Budd, Hella, Bae, Meyerson, & Watkin, 2011;Danko, Garbacz, & Budd, 2016;Lyon & Budd, 2010;Nieter, Thornberry, & BrestanKnight, 2013;see Volume 3, Chapter 23, this handbook). While two other therapies did not have articles that used "community" in the title, their settings warranted inclusion in the discussion on communitybased program characteristics: Coping Power (see Volume 3, Chapter 22, this handbook) and the Family CheckUp (see Volume 3, Chapter 24, this handbook).…”