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This paper reports on the results of a clinical study that assessed the treatment efficacy of an adapted model of multiple family therapy (MFT) in helping Hong Kong Chinese parents recovering from depression. A total of sixty‐one depressed parents were assigned to either the control group (CG) or the experimental group (EG) on the basis of their motivation and commitment to the MFT programme. Data were collected using standardised measures in the pre‐treatment phase (T1), in the post‐treatment phase (T2) and at a three‐month follow‐up (T3). No significant difference was found between the EG and the CG in regard to the effect of MFT on the parental and family functioning of the depressed parents. However, after the MFT, the EG depressed parents' level of psychological distress was significantly reduced, an effect which was sustained at 3‐month follow‐up. Clinical and research implications of the study are discussed. Practitioner pointsMultiple family therapy (MFT) is useful for Hong Kong Chinese parents with depression in recovery.Depressed parents' psychological distress was reduced after MFT.Depressed parents with lower levels of education are likely to need support or interventions additional to MFT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports the therapeutic resources in the natural outdoors that were conducive to the therapeutic process in a multi‐family therapy (MFT) for enhancing the self‐efficacy and collective family efficacy of Chinese families of adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Hong Kong. Photo‐elicited interviews with adolescents with ADHD and parent focus groups were employed to explore the participatory experiences of the families. A total of thirteen Chinese families of adolescents (aged 11–15 years) with ADHD participated in this study (fourteen adolescents with ADHD, eight fathers and ten mothers). The present study explored the potential therapeutic resources in the natural outdoors, namely a change in the group environment, spaciousness and darkness. The use of the natural outdoors in MFT proved to be a strategy useful for creating a naturalistic group setting within which family participants can more easily enact changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]