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    Positive Systemic Practice for Families of Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioural Problems
    (AIA, LFTRC and KCCF, 2014-01)
    Cassells, Ciara 
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    Carr, Alan 
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    Forrest, M. 
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    Fry, Jane 
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    Beirne, Fidelma 
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    Casey, Tom 
    Positive Systemic Practice (PSP) is an approach to family therapy for addressing adolescent emotional and behavioural problems. It was developed at Crosscare Teen Counselling, which operates from 6 centres in socially disadvantaged areas of Dublin. The practice of PSP is guided by 10 general principles and 47 specific therapeutic stances which are used to put the principles of PSP into practice. PSP involves adopting a positive, systemic, preventative and normal developmental perspective. Therapy is viewed as involving three distinct phases, in all of which the therapeutic alliance is central, and therapeutic problem-solving is research-informed. Counsellors actively work with resistance to change, operate in two-person teams and evaluate their work. An archival study showed that families of adolescents with significant behavioural and emotional problems, most of whom were self-referred, engaged with PSP for an average of 15 sessions over 4 months. For a subsample of cases where pre- and post-treatment data were available, there was evidence for statistically and clinically significant improvement.
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    Psychometric properties and responsiveness to change of 15- and 28- item versions of the SCORE: A family assessment questionnaire
    (Wiley, 2015-09)
    Hamilton, Elena 
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    Carr, Alan 
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    Cahill, Paul 
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    Cassells, Ciara 
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    Hartnett, Daniel 
    The SCORE (Systemic Clinical Outcome and Routine Evaluation) is a 40-item questionnaire for completion by family members 12 years and older to assess outcome in systemic therapy. This study aimed to investigate psychometric properties of two short versions of the SCORE and their responsiveness to therapeutic change. Data were collected at 19 centers from 701 families at baseline and from 433 of these 3–5 months later. Results confirmed the three-factor structure (strengths, difficulties, and communication ) of the 15- and 28-item versions of the SCORE. Both instruments had good internal consistency and test–retest reliability. They also showed construct and criterion validity, correlating with measures of parent, child, and family adjustment, and discriminating between clinical and non clinical cases. Total and factor scales of the SCORE-15 and -28 were responsive to change over 3–5 mont hs of therapy. The SCORE-15 and SCORE-28 are brief psychometrically robust family assessment instruments which may be used to evaluate systemic therapy.
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