Introduction
I. Clinical Foundations and Research Support
II. The FFT Clinical Model
III. Administering and Extending FFT
References
Index
About the Authors
James F. Alexander, PhD, created the core elements of
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in 1971 and has been researching
and helping others implement the model since then. He provides
training and supervision to FFT therapists across the United States
and worldwide. In addition to his work with FFT, Dr. Alexander has
enjoyed being a professor at the University of Utah for 40
years.
Dr. Alexander has had fellowships with APA Divisions 12 (Society of
Clinical Psychology) and 43 (Society for Family Psychology) and has
served as president of Division 43. He has received several awards
for his contributions to family therapy and research from APA, the
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American
Family Therapy Academy, and the University of Utah. Most notably,
he received the APA Presidential Citation for Lifetime
Contributions to Psychology in 2009. He has also been honored for
his teaching at the University of Utah.
Dr. Alexander has served on the editorial board for several
family-related journals, including as senior consulting editor for
The Family Psychologist. He has received training and research
grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National
Institute on Drug Abuse, and the University of Utah. He has
published three books on FFT and more than 80 articles and chapters
and has given hundreds of presentations and webinars nationally and
internationally.
Holly Barrett Waldron, PhD, is a senior scientist at the
Oregon Research Institute (ORI) and director of the ORI Center for
Family and Adolescent Research. She has been involved with FFT
clinical development and research for over 30 years, including the
early efforts of the FFT team at the University of Utah and later
the development of the FFT Blueprint for Violence Prevention model
for the University of Colorado Center for Violence Prevention. She
began training FFT therapists in the clinical psychology and
licensure for alcohol and drug abuse counseling programs at the
University of New Mexico in 1988.
Dr. Waldron also established a program of research evaluating FFT
through a series of clinical trials funded by the National
Institutes of Health. To date, she has conducted more than a dozen
randomized clinical trials and other investigations examining the
efficacy and effectiveness of FFT. Her research and clinical
efforts have focused on the implementation of FFT for adolescent
substance use disorders, delinquency, depression, and HIV risk
behaviors.
The investigations she and her colleagues at ORI have conducted
have led to innovations in FFT, including specialized behavior
change technologies for substance abuse and depression,
evidence-based strategies for integrating motivational incentives
into FFT to promote abstinence, and strategies for reducing drug
use relapse and recidivism through an FFT aftercare program. She is
currently directing research to evaluate FFT supervision using
observational training methods and evaluating the delivery of FFT
to rural families via a web-based video link.
As a scientist–practitioner, Dr. Waldron is actively engaged in FFT
dissemination and has extensive experience training and supervising
FFT therapists in community settings. She has developed a
Spanish-language training system for FFT and has trained FFT
therapists working with Spanish-speaking families in the United
States and in Latin America.
Dr. Waldron is currently disseminating FFT through Leading
Implementations in Functional Family Therapy Co. (LIFFT). The
primary focus of LIFFT is to expand the adoption and reach of the
FFT model nationally and internationally, with an emphasis on
treating drug abuse and related problems.
Michael S. Robbins, PhD, completed his doctorate in clinical
psychology at the University of Utah and a clinical internship at
the University of Miami School of Medicine. He served as research
associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences at the University of Miami School of Medicine for 15
years. He is currently a senior scientist at the Oregon Research
Institute and research director for Functional Family Therapy,
LLC.
Dr. Robbins has many publications in the area of family therapy for
adolescents with behavior problems. He has extensive experience
conducting clinical research on family therapy with drug-using,
delinquent adolescents and their families, including innovative
process studies that involve the examination of in-session
processes across three empirically validated family interventions
as well as large multisite trials examining the impact of family
therapy in real-world settings. He has directly overseen the
training of hundreds of family therapists both nationally and
internationally.
Dr. Robbins is a frequent lecturer and consultant and is recognized
as a leader in the areas of process and outcome research in
adolescent drug abuse treatment.
Andrea A. Neeb, MS, received her master of science degree
from Nova Southeastern University in 2001 and became a licensed
mental health counselor in 2004. Over the past 10 years, she has
worked with Functional Family Therapy, LLC, as a trainer and
consultant. She has been involved in the dissemination and training
of the FFT model to organizations throughout the United States and
Europe. Ms. Neeb's primary focus of work has been in the clinical
development of therapists in their practice of the FFT model with
diverse client populations and settings.
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