NCT00680381

Transitional Treatment of Adolescents in Family Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oregon Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test different treatments to reduce relapse for drug-abusing adolescents who have completed family therapy. Adolescents receive 12 weeks of family therapy, designed to strengthen family relationships and develop skills for helping the adolescent avoid drug use. Then they are randomly assigned to receive one of three eight-week follow-up treatments: phone calls from a project therapist, group therapy, or a customized schedule of therapist visits with the adolescent, the adolescent's family and teachers, coaches, probation officers and others who can help the adolescent reach or maintain abstinence. Families are assessed using questionnaires and interviews before, during and after treatment, to provide information about family functioning, the adolescent's drug use, the adolescent's peers and other factors that may contribute to treatment success or failure. Adolescents also provide urine specimens for drug screening at assessment visits. Study investigators expect the study will show that a functional family environment and insulating adolescents from the influence of peers who use drugs will help prevent relapse for adolescents who have received family therapy.

Conditions

• Substance Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MTI, Minimal Transitional Intervention	Following 12 weeks of Functional Family Therapy (FFT), semi-weekly phone calls from a therapist for eight weeks.
BEHAVIORAL	GTI, Group Transitional Intervention	Following 12 weeks of FFT, weekly one-hour sessions of group therapy for eight weeks.
BEHAVIORAL	STI, Systems Transitions Intervention	Following 12 weeks of FFT, an individualized eight-week series of therapist meetings with the adolescent, family, police, teachers, coaches and others who can support the adolescent's reduced drug use.

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-07-01
• Completion: 2014-07-01
• First posted: 2008-05-20
• Last updated: 2014-08-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States