| Publication Type |
thesis |
| School or College |
College of Social & Behavioral Science |
| Department |
Psychology |
| Author |
Freitag, Malinda J |
| Title |
Parent-adolescent alliances as a predictor of retention in functional family therapy |
| Date |
2010-03-19 |
| Description |
This study examined adolescent?mother and mother?adolescent alliances and their relationship with treatment retention in Functional Family Therapy (FFT). Participants were 58 families selected from a larger sample of 240 single mothers and their delinquent adolescents. The families were classified either as treatment completers (N= 29) or dropouts (N=29). Archived videos of first and second FFT sessions were rated in 20-minute segments using the Parent-Adolescent Alliance Rating System for Therapeutic Settings to determine the nature of parent-adolescent and adolescent-parent alliances as they progressed through early treatment. As hypothesized, completer families demonstrated an increase in alliance scores from the middle to the end of second sessions while dropout families did not. Results also indicated that completer families scored significantly higher than dropout families beginning at the middle of the first session, and remaining so across all segments measured. These findings highlight the importance of parent-child relationships and how they are expressed and evolve or fail to evolve during early therapy sessions. |
| Type |
Text |
| Publisher |
University of Utah |
| Subject |
Parent and teenager; Family psychotherapy |
| Dissertation Institution |
University of Utah |
| Dissertation Name |
MS |
| Language |
eng |
| Relation is Version of |
Digital reproduction of "Parent-adolescent alliances as a predictor of retention in functional family therapy" J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections BF21.5 2010 .F74 |
| Rights Management |
© Malinda J. Freitag, To comply with copyright, the file for this work may be restricted to The University of Utah campus libraries pending author permission. |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Format Extent |
110,192 bytes |
| Identifier |
us-etd2,155408 |
| Source |
Original: University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned on Epson GT-30000 as 400 dpi to pdf using ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6862x3b |
| Setname |
ir_etd |
| ID |
193892 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6862x3b |
