Multiple-Family Groups: Practice Implications for the 21st Century

Msw, Susan T. Dennison

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“…McKay, Quintana, Kim, Gonzales, and Adil (1999) have identified the following features of multiple family group models: (a) the inclusion of children, parents and a facilitator; (b) a focus on a specific problem; and (c) the facilitation of interaction processes and exchanges between-and within-families. Although multiple family groups originally targeted families with a mentally ill member, MFG models are now being used successfully with wellfunctioning families and families with children (Dennison, 1999). More specifically, MFG programs have been developed for families facing contemporary social and urban problems, including HIV/AIDS (McKay, Baptiste, Coleman, Madison, Paikoff, & Scott, 2000), maternal substance abuse (DeVoe, Dean, Joyce, McKay, & Bronx Collaborative Board, in press), death of loved ones through homicide (Lyon et al, 1992 as cited in Dennison, 1999), and to address behavioral problems in urban children (McKay et al, 1999).…”

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“…Although multiple family groups originally targeted families with a mentally ill member, MFG models are now being used successfully with wellfunctioning families and families with children (Dennison, 1999). More specifically, MFG programs have been developed for families facing contemporary social and urban problems, including HIV/AIDS (McKay, Baptiste, Coleman, Madison, Paikoff, & Scott, 2000), maternal substance abuse (DeVoe, Dean, Joyce, McKay, & Bronx Collaborative Board, in press), death of loved ones through homicide (Lyon et al, 1992 as cited in Dennison, 1999), and to address behavioral problems in urban children (McKay et al, 1999). Very few interventions implementing family-based (Tolan & McKay, 1996) or dyadic approaches have been evaluated although a few have described group intervention with children who have witnessed domestic violence (e.g., Rabenstein & Lehmann, 2000;Wagar & Rodway, 1995).…”

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The SURVIVE Community Project

DeVoe

Dean²,

Traube

et al. 2005

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

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The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a family-based intervention designed to target the harmful effects of exposure to family and community violence on urban youth and their parents. The program, "Supporting Urban Residents to be Violence-Free in a Violent Environment (SURVIVE)," is a 12-week multiple family group (MEG) intervention modeled upon similar children's mental health programs implemented with urban youth of color and their families in several major U.S. cities. The design and implementation of the SURVIVE Community Project were guided by a collaborative partnership between community members, including mental health professionals, teachers, and parents from the Bronx, and an interdisciplinary team of university-based researchers. In order to establish the feasibility and relevance of the program for urban communities, 25 families with children ages 7-11 participated in a pilot test of the curriculum. The description of the SURVIVE Community Project provided here is based on this work, and includes a discussion of facilitation issues. Implications for familybased intervention targeting urban children and families affected by violence are highlighted.

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Section: Multiple Family Groups and The Role Of Urban Parentsmentioning

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Section: Multiple Family Groups and The Role Of Urban Parentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The SURVIVE Community Project

DeVoe

Dean²,

Traube

et al. 2005

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

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“…The premise is based on multiple families attending groups together, providing family-to-family peer support (Dennison, 1999;Meezen & O'Keefe, 1998). Multiple-family groups allow not-for-profit agencies and non-government organisations to efficiently use their limited human and capital resources, and allow therapists to share information with a number of families in a single time period.…”

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The development, dissemination and evaluation of a psychoeducational parenting program for use within the adolescent drug and alcohol treatment field

Winchester¹

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Adolescent drug use is a major problem of the modern world and will likely continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Significant effort has been placed into providing adolescent treatment and intervention options with the aim of supporting young people to make better choices around their substance use. The impact of adolescent drug use on parents and their parenting has been insufficiently researched and often overlooked in both the treatment literature and within clinical practice. The literature on familial risk or causative factors for the development of substance misuse problems is much greater. However, there has been little focus or regard for the impact on family members, and in particular, parents. Parents are people too, and too often are a forgotten population. The literature presented includes studies on how adolescent substance misuse can have a negative effect on parental wellbeing and parenting practices.This thesis provides a rationale behind the development of a treatment approach for parents of adolescents and young people misusing substances. This is a distinct and potentially complementary approach to engaging the adolescent substance misuser, who may be uninterested or resistant to intervention. Parents accessing a tertiary treatment facility for adolescent substance misusers were requesting support and guidance to assist in managing their high levels of distress, lack of drug-specific knowledge and their struggle to find effective parenting strategies. Based on the premise that living with a substance misusing child would bring about a great deal of caregiver strain, and they would benefit from support and assistance in managing their situation, a five-week group-based parent-only group treatment intervention was developed to meet the psychological wellbeing and parenting practice needs of these parents. Over 300 parents engaged in the Parent Education and Support Program (PESP).As a result of their engagement in PESP, parents reported significant positive changes in their mood states, improved coping, increased drug knowledge and reported utilization of more functional and effective parenting strategies. This initial | P a g e iii efficacy study provided the basis to the broader dissemination of the parenting program outside a single tertiary facility.The PESP was written into a manualised treatment intervention and renamed Parents, Kids and Drugs (PKD). This portable and systematized version enabled delivery by external service providers into broader, diverse clinical and non-clinical environments across metropolitan, regional and remote Queensland, Australia.The ensuing studies outline the development, implementation, dissemination and evaluation of PKD over a four-year period, effectively becoming a real-world effectiveness study. Associated with the dissemination of PKD using third party providers were difficulties in obtaining complete data sets and a waitlist control. A post hoc control group was sourced using an online survey. Outcome measures were examined using paired t...

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Implementing Evidence-Based Multiple-Family Groups with Adolescent Substance Abusers

Smith

Hall

2010

Social Work With Groups

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Multiple-Family Groups: Practice Implications for the 21st Century

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

The SURVIVE Community Project

The SURVIVE Community Project

The development, dissemination and evaluation of a psychoeducational parenting program for use within the adolescent drug and alcohol treatment field

Implementing Evidence-Based Multiple-Family Groups with Adolescent Substance Abusers

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