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Functional Family Therapy - Office of Justice Programs
Department of JusticeOffice of Justice ProgramsOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency PreventionJohn J. Wilson, Acting AdministratorFrom the AdministratorWhile a number of States andcommunities are turning to punitiveapproaches to addressing juvenilecrime, research indicates that suchapproaches, despite their high cost,are largely ineffective. Juvenile offen-ders removed from their families andcommunities eventually return, andunless their underlying behavioralproblems have been treated effectively,these problems are likely to contributeto further Family Therapy (FFT)draws on a multisystemic perspectivein its Family -based prevention andintervention efforts. The program ap-plies a comprehensive model, proventheory, empirically tested principles,and a wealth of experience to thetreatment of at-risk and Bulletin chronicles FFT s evolu-tion over more than three decades;sets forth the program s core prin-ciples, goals, and techniques; andreviews its research implementation of FFTis described, and an example ofeffective replication is years of clinical researchindi
to treating the broad range of problems found in juveniles who engage in delin-quent and criminal behavior. Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a family-based prevention and intervention program that has been applied successfully in a variety of contexts to treat a range of these high-risk youth and their families. As
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