ATTACHMENT-BASED FAMILY THERAPY
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010, Dr. Fenny Braide, attended and participated in research introductory workshop organized by The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The finding shows that The Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) is the only manualized, empirically-informed family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and depression. ABFT emerges from interpersonal theories that suggest adolescent depression and suicide can be precipitated, exacerbated, or buffered against by the quality of interpersonal relationships in families. It is a trust-based, emotional-focused psychotherapy model that aims to repair interpersonal ruptures or traumas and rebuild an emotional protective, secure-based, parent-child relationship.
The initial focus of the ABFT is for repairing or strengthening attachment and then turns to promoting adolescent autonomy. The model is emotionally focused but provides structure and goal, thereby increasing therapist's intentionality and focus on the family.
Treatment is characterized by five treatment tasks:
(a) reframing the therapy to focus on interpersonal development (b) facilitating conversations to resolve attachment rupture (c) building alliance with parents (d) facilitating conversations to resolve attachment ruptures, and (e) promoting competency in the adolescent.
Try it! Incorporate Attachment-Based Family Therapy with evidence based cognitive behavioral therapy and see how it works.
Posted: Sept 27, 2010
Dr. Fenny Braide, is a Psychotherapist and Lead Clinician @ The Behavioral Health Center, Philadelphia.
On Tuesday, August 31, 2010, Dr. Fenny Braide, attended and participated in research introductory workshop organized by The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The finding shows that The Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) is the only manualized, empirically-informed family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and depression. ABFT emerges from interpersonal theories that suggest adolescent depression and suicide can be precipitated, exacerbated, or buffered against by the quality of interpersonal relationships in families. It is a trust-based, emotional-focused psychotherapy model that aims to repair interpersonal ruptures or traumas and rebuild an emotional protective, secure-based, parent-child relationship.
The initial focus of the ABFT is for repairing or strengthening attachment and then turns to promoting adolescent autonomy. The model is emotionally focused but provides structure and goal, thereby increasing therapist's intentionality and focus on the family.
Treatment is characterized by five treatment tasks:
(a) reframing the therapy to focus on interpersonal development (b) facilitating conversations to resolve attachment rupture (c) building alliance with parents (d) facilitating conversations to resolve attachment ruptures, and (e) promoting competency in the adolescent.
Try it! Incorporate Attachment-Based Family Therapy with evidence based cognitive behavioral therapy and see how it works.
Posted: Sept 27, 2010
Great post! Most people think of therapy as involving a one-to-one relationship with a therapist. However, there are times when it is more appropriate for family therapy and marital counseling either instead of or in addition to individual therapy.
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