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Family therapists working in medical contexts often struggle to find a common language for communication with medical staff about the importance of family support. HIV positive youth are a group [...]

As the subdiscipline of medical family therapy grows, collaborative partnerships between family therapy programs and HIV/ AIDS clinics represent a promising opportunity to systemically address the medical, intrapersonal, and interpersonal [...]

A web-based modified Delphi study identified facilitators and barriers of implementing Functional Family Therapy at five community mental health agencies located in the northeastern part of the United States. Three levels of staff comprising 13 panelists (3 administrators, 3 supervisors, and 7 clinicians) completed the study. Group consensus was reached on four facilitators and one barrier. The four facilitators (collaboration, training, agencies’ readiness, and funding source expectations) and one barrier (lack of appropriateness for some populations) provide a better understanding of community-based issues when trying to transport and implement evidence-based family programs. Future research investigating the experiences of families and clients receiving services will provide a more systemic perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]