Low-Income Families With Potential Adolescent Gang Involvement: A Structural Community Family Therapy Integration Model |
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| Authors: | Sharde’ N. McNeil Jennifer K. Herschberger Mary N. Nedela |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Marriage and Family Therapy, Department of Family and Child Sciences , Florida State University , Tallahassee , Florida , USA;2. Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Liberty Behavioral Health Corporation , Pendleton , Indiana , USA;3. Marriage and Family Therapy, Department of Behavioral Sciences , Purdue University Calumet , Hammond , Indiana , USA |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to propose a community structural intervention for low-income families who present to therapy with the concern of an adolescent at risk for gang involvement. Families are affected by multiple interacting systems. In congruence with systems theory, changing a part of the system will essentially affect the interrelated parts of the system. The proposed intervention utilizes structural family therapy and community family therapy as a model to impact change at the family system, its interrelated systems, and the system at which the family is embedded. |
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