BSFT™ Developer to Present at Blueprints Conference

Join BSFT™ Developer José Szapocznik, Ph.D. April 7-9, 2010 in the historic city of San Antonio, Texas for the third annual Blueprints Conference. Dr. Szapocznik will be presenting Thursday morning, April 8, 2010 and hosting “Meet the Developer” hospitality suite Wednesday evening, April 7 at the Marriott Rivercenter hotel on the San Antonio River Walk. Blueprints attendees are invited to...

Reclaiming the Child, Reconnecting the Family

For months on end, Roberto’s bedroom was a place of refuge. In his family’s small apartment, his room was where he could watch TV, talk on the phone with his girlfriend, and send text messages without risking an argument with his dad. In this safe haven, father and son would not cross paths. To make matters worse, the once close relationship with his mother...

BSFT™ Agency Recognizes Excellence

Since the 1970s, community agency Crosswinds Youth Services (Cocoa, FL) has been creating opportunities for young people to succeed. Crosswinds is part of Florida’s “Redirection Program,” launched in 2004 by its Department of Juvenile Justice to “redirect” troubled youth from residential placements to more effective, family-focused, evidence-based treatment.  BSFT™ has been implemented at Crosswinds since November, 2007.

Complimentary Consultation

Brief Strategic Family Therapy® Institute has provided BSFT™ training, supervision, consultation and licensure to community agencies in over 40 states and other countries ranging from Australia to Sweden. Our research program began in 1972. If you are a decision-making legislator, judicial officer, clinical director or foundation executive, consider the cost effectiveness of BSFT’s well-designed and tested family program.

BSFT™ Sponsors Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline® Forum, 10/02/09

Over 200 people assembled at the University of Miami’s Medical Campus on October 2 to examine the current state of juvenile justice in Miami-Dade County (Florida). Organized by the Circuit 11 Juvenile Justice Board in collaboration with The Children’s Trust and the Brief Strategic Family Therapy® Institute (BSFT™), the purpose of the event was to develop a juvenile justice strategic plan and legislative agenda for dismantling the Cradle-To-Prison Pipeline&Reg; in the community.

BSFT™ Conference in Sweden, 09/10/09 - 09/11/09
The “Conference to Introduce Brief Strategic Family Therapy™” was held September 10-11, 2009 at the Karolinska Institutet, Solna Campus, in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference disseminated knowledge about the method in Sweden, which is recognized as an effective program of several academic and national (USA) organizations to reduce or stop drug abuse and related behavior problems in adolescents. Attendees included therapists and administrators from several European nations.

The Brief Strategic Family Therapy™ Institute is currently supervising a team of six therapists in the BSFT™ Model who are part of the Maria Youth (Ungdom) Center In Stockholm, Sweden – a governmental organization that provides drug treatment to adolescents and their families. The team started their training in late November of 2007 and is currently participating in supervision to sustain the BSFT™ program in their agency.

Senior BSFT™ Trainer, Mónica Zárate, and the six therapists meet weekly for supervision using videoconferencing and regularly review translated videotaped family sessions. The team, which participated alongside University of Miami BSFT™ Trainers at the BSFT™ Conference, has demonstrated a tremendous commitment to implementing BSFT™ in their agency.

NREPP Reviews BSFT™, 12/01/08
The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), a service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has reviewed several BSFT™ studies and outcomes. NREPP analyzed engagement in therapy, conduct problems, socialized aggression (delinquency in the company of peers), substance use and family functioning.