Functional Family Therapy – Lewisham Youth Justice Service (2018)
Summary:
Lewisham youth justice service have shared how they run functional family therapy in their service to support families in reducing the use of violence, offending and poor behaviour.
Description:
Functional Family Therapy is a strength-based model, which offers short-term, high-quality intervention programme for children who are at risk or offending. In general, the families have between 8-12 sessions, however, more complex families can have up to 30 sessions over a 3-4 month period, with sessions last around 1 hour.
The intervention programme works with the whole family and the sessions can be conducted in either clinical or home setting. Often the children and their families have histories of poor engagement, lack of access to resources and repeat contact with multiple services. Functional Family Therapy works with the whole family, aiming to reduce negative and defensive communication patterns, increase supportive innervations and promote effective parental discipline.
Please note that there are two distinct strands of Functional Family Therapy, both of which have implemented FFT in the UK.
Lewisham youth justice service, who have implemented Functional Family Therapy, have provided a number of resources, including:
- An overview of the FFT programme
- An FFT factsheet
- A Case Study detailing how FFT was implemented in Lewisham Youth Justice Service
- A leaflet for referrers, outlining Lewisham’s criteria for referral to FFT
- An overview of the case management system used with FFT
Contact:
| Source Organisation: | FFT Inc. (this is the main dissemination organisation) |
| Name: | Holly DeMaranville |
| Email: | hollyfft@comcast.net |
| Web: | http://www.fftllc.com |
| Source Organisation: | FFT |
| Name: | Thomas Sexton |
| Email: | thsexton@mac.com |
| Web: | https://www.functionalfamilytherapy.com/ |
| Youth justice service: | Lewisham youth justice service |
| Name: | Serena Mullings |
| Email: | Serena.Mullings@lewisham.gov.uk |