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The Family Unit at Modum Bad in Vikersund, Norway, offers residential, intensive treatment for couples and families within a national psychiatric hospital for adults. The typical clients are characterized as multiproblem families that have longstanding, severe problems across a variety of life areas where previous help was inadequate. The treatment approach is tailored within a frame of integrative practice that captures individual as well as relational models and interventions. The clients are also given a psychoeducational program, and routine outcome monitoring (feedback) has been implemented to ensure user involvement, as well as for clinical and research purposes. The context of ten families in treatment for three months creates arenas for discovering and assessing typical daily situations related to the families’ problems. The same arenas constitute a feasible therapy context for exploring and practicing new skills and interplay within a safe, but still challenging environment. The Family Unit at Modum Bad is unique worldwide. First of all, this is enabled due to the Norwegian welfare system so that treatment is paid for by public insurance. Second, the physical context along with the treatment program facilitates for an optimal therapy environment. Thirdly, its integrative practice model is experienced throughout many years as a needed approach for understanding and treating complex problems in couples and families. The Family Unit is also involved in cutting-edge research by the use of feedback as part of treatment.
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Barstad, B., Opstvedt, H., Tilden, T. (2017). Empirically Informed Therapy Conducted at the Family Unit, Modum Bad. In: Tilden, T., Wampold, B. (eds) Routine Outcome Monitoring in Couple and Family Therapy. European Family Therapy Association Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50675-3_9
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