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Residential treatment remains a necessary and effective service for helping adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral issues and for the benefit of their families. One of the major challenges consistently debated in the literature is whether or not youth are able to maintain treatment gains once they return to their home and community environments. Therefore, it makes sense that engaging the family in the adolescent’s treatment and drawing on their strengths and resources is crucial. This book sought to emphasize how family-oriented approaches and techniques can be used to engage adolescents and their families, as well as address many of the inherent challenges associated with treating youth in this setting. This chapter serves as the epilogue to the book and provides an examination of the contents of this book as they relate to the objectives of the authors and highlights the continued need to strengthen the place of family therapy in residential treatment.
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Merritts, A.N., Christenson, J.D. (2017). Expanding Our Understanding of Family Therapy in Residential Treatment. In: Christenson, J., Merritts, A. (eds) Family Therapy with Adolescents in Residential Treatment. Focused Issues in Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51747-6_25
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