Re-offending in troubled and aggressive young people can be significantly cut using a pioneering new mental health approach known as Multisystemic Therapy, a UK conference was told recently. Reporting on the initial findings of the first UK evaluation pilot, researchers found in families with multiple problems that the use of Multisystemic Therapy or MST reduced [...]
The Leeds Multisystemic Therapy (MST) pilot, one of 10 in the country, was featured on BBC Radio Leeds Breakfast news programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00984wx/Martin_Kelner_and_Katherine_Hannah_13_08_2010/ on Friday August 13. Interviewers Martin Kelner and Katherine Hannah highlighted the four year project and interviewed a local family who say the approach has “worked wonders” with their son and “they would [...]
The Guardian ran the following article on July 9 a couple of days after the conference: ‘Complex Families: Multisystemic Solutions’. A scheme to keep challenging young people out of care or prison through intensive family support won the backing of government ministers yesterday who said it might offer a cost-effective way to deal with antisocial behaviour.
The Brandon Centre, and the MST random control trial, is singled out as a a good example of a charity providing evidence of its impact and therefore in a position to support the government’s ‘big society’.
The ‘Complex families:multisystemic solutions’ conference being held on July 7, 2010, will focus on the current findings from research and practice in relation to Multisystemic Therapy (MST) in the UK and internationally.