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Functional family therapy

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From:

NICE Guideline CG77 - Antisocial personality disorder: prevention and management

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

A family-based intervention that is behavioural in focus. The main elements include engagement and motivation of the family in treatment, problem-solving and behaviour change through parent-training and communication-training, and seeking to generalise change from specific behaviours to positively influence interactions both within the family and with community agencies such as schools.

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