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Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) (Stuart & Robertson Manual) is designed to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, or eating disorders. IPT (Stuart & Robertson Manual) aims to assess psychological functioning as a product of temperament, personality, and attachment style placed on a foundation of biological factors. It considers these factors in the context of current social relationships, social support, cultural, and spiritual factors. IPT (Stuart & Robertson Manual) focuses on addressing interpersonal issues to reduce symptoms, improve interpersonal functioning, and increase social support.
Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is a home-visiting program that is typically implemented by trained registered nurses. NFP serves young, first-time, low-income mothers beginning early in their pregnancy until the child turns two. The primary aims of NFP are to improve the health, relationships, and economic well-being of mothers and their children. Typically, nurses provide support related to individualized goal setting, preventative health practices, parenting skills, and educational and career planning. However, the content of the program can vary based on the needs and requests of the mother. NFP aims for 60 visits that last 60-75 minutes each in the home or a location of the mother’s choosing. For the first month after enrollment, visits occur weekly. Then, they are held bi-weekly or on an as-needed basis.
Nurturing Families™ is a program designed to support families with children ages 0–19. Nurturing Families can be delivered to Spanish-speaking families using Criando Familias con Hijos de Todas Edades. The program aims to help families establish safety, heal, maintain healthy relationships, and understand the links between interpersonal violence, trauma, and substance use. Facilitators can deliver Nurturing Families as a prevention, intervention, or treatment program. The program has 16 competency areas that build on one another and are designed to equip parents with new knowledge and skills to strengthen their role as parents and foster personal growth. Examples of competency areas include understanding routines and safety, discipline, communication, healthy life choices, and trauma and loss. Each competency area has 3–6 distinct lessons. Facilitators can choose to deliver certain competencies and lessons depending on the family’s need and type of services being delivered.
Sacred Journey is an adaptation of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for American Indian and Alaskan Native populations designed to treat adults who are experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or trauma symptoms. The program has a pre-session orientation on trauma and its effects on behavior followed by 12 sessions with homework assignments between sessions. During the first two sessions, the therapist helps the individual identify a primary traumatic event and process its meaning. In sessions 3–6, the therapist educates the individual on the relationship between events, thoughts, and feelings. Therapists also teach skills for challenging patterns of problematic thinking. In sessions 7–9, therapists focus on helping the individual increase feelings of safety, trust, power, and control. In sessions 10–12, the therapist addresses issues of respect, healthy sexual relationships, substance use, intimacy, and preparing for the end of treatment.
Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) is designed to serve families involved in the child welfare system with at least one child age 5 or younger and one parent diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD). The START model was designed to recruit, engage, and retain parents in SUD treatment while keeping children safe. The goals of START are to prevent out-of-home placements, promote child safety and well-being, increase permanency for children, encourage parental SUD recovery, and improve family stability and self-sufficiency.
TBRI® 101 is a self-administered approach to Trust-Based Relational Intervention® for caregivers of children who have experienced abuse, neglect, and/or other trauma. This program includes self-guided virtual training that is delivered through a series of video lessons. TBRI® 101 uses an attachment-based and trauma-informed approach. It aims to provide parents and caregivers with the tools needed to meet the needs of their children. The training emphasizes three core principles: (1) TBRI Connecting Principles, which focus on engaging children and building caregiver mindfulness in order to strengthen relationships; (2) TBRI Empowering Principles, which focus on strategies to help children learn crucial skills associated with self-regulation and meeting the physical and environmental needs (e.g., structuring the day, managing transitions) of children; and (3) TBRI Correcting Principles, which focus on building children’s social competencies and ability to navigate the social world.
Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) uses a structured family systems approach to treat families with children or adolescents (6 to 17 years) who display or are at risk for developing problem behaviors including substance abuse, conduct problems, and delinquency. There are three intervention components. First, counselors establish relationships with family members to better understand and ‘join’ the family system. Second, counselors observe how family members behave with one another in order to identify interactional patterns that are associated with problematic youth behavior. Third, counselors work in the present, using reframes, assigning tasks and coaching family members to try new ways of relating to one another to promote more effective and adaptive family interactions. BSFT is typically delivered in 12 to 16 weekly sessions in community centers, clinics, health agencies, or homes. BSFT counselors are required to participate in four phases of training and are expected to have training and/or experience with basic clinical skills common to many behavioral interventions and family systems theory.
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up – Early Childhood (ABC-EC), formerly referred to as ABC-Toddler, is designed to help caregivers of children ages 24–48 months who have experienced early adversity. ABC-EC aims to promote responsive caregiving to help toddlers develop secure, organized attachments and self-regulation capabilities. ABC-EC is provided by skilled clinicians, called parent coaches. Coaching sessions include in-the-moment and video feedback to foster the caregiver’s abilities to follow the toddler’s lead, respond to toddler’s distress in nurturing ways, recognize and reduce frightening behaviors, and calm their dysregulated toddler.