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Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in an Irish Context 2010 - 2014. Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in an Irish Context 2010 - 2014. doi:10.7929/ISSDA/R2EI330062-00 Archways Carr, Alan Hartnett, Dan Graham, Clare Sexton, Thomas ISSDAIrish Social Science Data Archive 2018 Social SciencesEmotional developmentAdolescentsFamily environmentHealthMental healthParental roleParentsWell-being (health)EvaluationPhysiological developmentYouthParental well-being/mental health PsychologyFamily life and marriageYouth FFT is an evidence-based treatment for adolescent behavioural problems, conduct behaviour, substance misuse and delinquency. Therapists meet regularly, usually on a weekly basis for about 3 or 4 months, with adolescents and their families in conjoint sessions. During these sessions they develop a therapeutic alliance with family members, help families develop better parenting practices, communication and problem-solving skills, and use these skills independently to generalize progress made within therapy to home and community contexts.<br> Between 2010 and 2014, a research programme to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of FFT at Archways Family First was conducted by Professor Alan Carr, Dan Hartnett and Clare Graham from the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, in collaboration with Professor Tom Sexton at Indiana University and the team of FFT therapists at Archways Family First. This FFT research programme involved a retrospective survey covering the period 2007-2011, followed by a prosepctive randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of FFT at Archways Families First during a later stage of service development covering the period 2012-2014. The RCT provided a valid test of the impact of FFT on adolescent behavioural problems and family adjustment with an Irish context. 2012-012014-01 Ireland DublinLeinster IndividualFamily: Household family Archways' Families First programme works with young people aged 11-18 and their families who are struggling with family conflict, youth-stress, behavioural, emotional and relationship difficulties at home. The RCT data contains data from both the young person and from one of their parents. Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based Probability: Simple random.<br> RCT study was conducted with FFT intervention group and waiting-list control group. Cases in the waiting-list control arm of the trial continued to receive treatment-as-usual from the referring service. Participants referred to the trial were screened for suitability with the SDQ during home-visits or at the Archways Families First centre. Those scoring at or above the clinical cut-off of 17 on the total difficulties scale of the parent-completed version of the SDQ were randomized to FFT or control groups. Minimization procedures were used to reduce differences between treatment and control group cases on age, gender, family composition (one- or two-parent family) and SDQ profile. Self-administered questionnaire: Paper ISSDA may only supply data for use in the EEA and adequacy decision countries. The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The data citation may be in the form on the dataset page or in the form required by the publication<br> Any work based in whole or part on resources provided by ISSDA, should acknowledge: "Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in an Irish Context 2010 - 2014" and also ISSDA, in the following way: “Accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive - www.ucd.ie/issda”.<br> https://issda.ucd.ie/oai doi:10.7929/ISSDA/R2EI33 2025-08-15T02:00:00Z ddi:codebook:2_5