1-DAY INTENSIVE
Keys to Improved Outcomes with Adolescent Drug Abuse and Delinquency:
The MDFT Model
Friday, October 8, 2010
*Special Rates! - please call
Students $100 / Agencies $150
Presenter:
Howard A. Liddle, EdD, ABPP (Family Psychology), is Professor, in the Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health and Psychology, and Director, of the Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (www.miami.edu\ctrada).Trained as a psychologist and family therapist, Dr. Liddle directs a long term program of National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded treatment development and therapy research in the area of adolescent substance abuse and delinquency.
Dr. Liddle publishes widely and consistently. His most recent outcome studies have appeared in Addiction, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and the American Journal of Drug And Alcohol Abuse. Dr. Liddle's 25 years of work have been recognized with career and research recognition awards from the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Family Therapy Academy, the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota. APA and Hazelden have produced DVDs on the MDFT approach.Dr. Liddle received the 2006 Research to Practice Award at the Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness (NIDA, NIAAA, CSAT, CSAP).
Dr. Liddle has been a faculty member in the medical school at the University of Miami since 1996. Before that he was a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco and Temple University in Philadelphia. While at UCSF in Family & community Medicine, Dr. Liddle taught workshops at the MRI from 1982-1990. His research center at the University of Miami was the first National Institute of Health funded center focusing on adolescent drug abuse treatment research.
Dr. Liddle and his team are currently conducting MDFT treatment studies and implementation projects in Miami, around the U.S., and in several European countries. His books include Multidimensional Family Therapy for Adolescent Drug Abuse: Clinician’s Manual (2009), Adolescent Substance Abuse: Research and Clinical Advances (with C. Rowe, 2006), Family Psychology: Science-Based Interventions (with D. Santisteban, R. Levant, & J. Bray, 2001), and Clinical Implications of the Family Life Cycle (1983).
Course Description
Learning about today's evidence based therapies can improve one's clinical skills. However research indicates that despite therapist interest in using evidence based interventions in their practices, opportunities to learn these models remain rare. This workshop focuses on a contemporary evidence based treatment - multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) - designed to treat adolescent drug abuse and delinquency. Developed by the workshop presenter in a NIDA-funded study performed across the Bay Area in the 1980s, MDFT has demonstrated its efficacy in ten controlled trials conducted around the U.S. and five European countries. The quality of the MDFT research program has been singled out in independent reviews, and the MDFT clinical model has been identified as one of the most effective treatments for teen drug abuse and delinquency by government agencies, independent foundations, task forces and expert groups that identify best practices. In addition to its scientific credibility, research data supports MDFT as a clinician- and client- and community-friendly treatment. Clearly stated and step by step clinical protocols guide therapists through common areas of work with teen drug abuse and delinquency, but also require clinician innovation, creativity, and tailoring the focal areas to each individual adolescent and family.The workshop (1) briefly summarizes the MDFT research base so that clinicians can know what outcomes to expect in using the approach, and (2) teaches and illustrates the core clinical components of the multidimensional model. Using DVDs of actual therapy sessions, the workshop covers the core clinical aspects of the MDFT model. The DVDs illustrate a therapist’s methods in MDFT’s four domains of assessment and intervention – the adolescent and parent subsystems, the family system, and the extrafamilial systems of school and juvenile justice. Using the MDFT treatment manual, the workshop outlines the key treatment ingredients and in-sessions processes, as well as therapist skills that account for the model’s effectiveness. Therapist issues, including clinician development, and the training and supervision context of implementing MDFT are also important aspects of the workshop.
Learning Objectives
1. MDFT Outcomes. List the major outcomes of the four types of MDFT studies - outcome studies, process studies, cost effectiveness studies, and implementation studies.
2. Clinical Targets. List the most important clinical targets in treating adolescent drug abuse and delinquency using the MDFT approach.
3. Clinical Framework and Methods. Describe the corresponding clinical framework and treatment methods organize successful treatment of adolescent drug abuse and delinquency.
4. Therapist Factors. List the most common therapist attitudinal, conceptual, and behavioral barriers to successful adolescent treatment.
Content Outline
I. Defining the Territory
· Adolescence: Developmental Milestones and Atypical Development
· Adolescent Substance Abuse and Delinquency
II. Therapy Development
· Adolescent Treatment Over the Years
· The Third Wave of Family Therapy
III. Therapeutic Options: Multidimensional Family Therapy
· Background in family therapy, psychotherapy, drug abuse, and delinquency
· Sample Findings from the 4 Kinds of MDFT studies: Outcome, Mechanisms of change, Economic analyses, and Implementation studies
· Conceptual model: Life Cycle Development, Ecology, Risk & Protective factors
· Change model: Clinical principles, stages of change and therapy, therapist techniques and use of self
· Assessment and intervention targets: Adolescents, Parents, Families, Extrafamilial systems
· From concepts to actions: Implementation of an evidence based therapy
· Therapist development: Knowledge, skills, supervision, and ongoing learning
COURSE LOCATION: The Stratton Room at the Creekside Inn
Stratton Room (Fifth Floor)
Creekside Inn
3400 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Reservations: 800 492-7335
Tel: 650-493-2411
Fax: 650-493-6787
Maps and Directions
http://www.creekside-inn.com/contacts/maps.php
*NOTE: The following article is a required reading for the workshop's attendance. It will be sent to participants upon workshop registration.
Additional information on the MDFT approach -pdf-
Hours:
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
6 Continuing Education Credits
MRI is approved to provide continuing education for MFT's and/or LCSW's as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE 14. MRI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MRI maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
COST: $200
*Special Rates! - please call
Students $100 / Agencies $150
