Alcohol Behavioral Couple Therapy

This is an outpatient treatment program for adult women with alcohol abuse disorders, including their partners.
Twelve to twenty weekly sessions of up to 90 minutes each are conducted. Initially, the couple undergoes an assessment to establish an intervention plan and identify factors contributing to alcohol abuse, relationship status, and the woman’s reasons for abstinence.
Subsequent sessions include four intervention elements:
1) Identification and reduction of behaviors that trigger or reinforce the individual’s drinking problem;

Family Group Conferencing in Child Welfare (Netherlands)

This is a program developed by the Amsterdam child welfare system to improve child safety, reduce the use of professional child welfare services and the duration of children’s involvement with these services, as well as to provide social support to parents.
Families participating in the program were referred by a child welfare agency for child maltreatment, alcohol and drug abuse, mental health problems, high conflict divorce, and child behavior problems, among other motivations. Once in the system, their participation in the program was defined by means of a sweepstake.

Common Sense Parenting

This is a psychoeducational training program in parenting skills for groups of parents of children from 6 to 16 years of age who present significant emotional and behavioral problems. The program’s objective is to teach positive parenting techniques and behavior management strategies for children.

CICC’s Effective Black Parenting Program (EBPP)

This is an intervention program that applies specific cultural education strategies and general parenting strategies, addressing core parenting competencies taught in a culturally sensitive manner.
The first set of strategies addresses issues such as: guidance for children’s success, self-discipline, positive communications about personal capital; addressing racism and avoiding self-loathing; finding special times to talk to children.
The second set of strategies includes: social learning and behavior identification, parenting approach, and children’s developmental skills.

Combined Parent-Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT)

This is a therapy program to monitor families with children who are victims of domestic violence. It consists of 16 to 20 parenting skill training sessions, involving four phases:
1) Engagement and psychoeducation: engaging and motivating parents to change their parenting style or interactions with their children;
2) Creation of effective problem-solving skills;
3) Family protection: developing a safety plan for the family to learn to identify positive parent-child interactions; and

Job Corps

This is an educational and vocational program for young people between 16 and 24 years of age who are in a situation of high financial vulnerability. The objective is to train them to access the job market, increase school attendance, employability and income, and reduce criminal recidivism rates.

Indianapolis Family Group Conferencing Experiment

This is a program to reorient the justice system toward primary juvenile offenders. The objective is to break the criminal cycle before it reaches the stage of criminal recidivism.
The criteria used to determine eligibility for participation in the project required that the youth be no older than 14, have no prior convictions, have committed a crime that was not serious or violent, have no other pending charges, and have taken responsibility for the crime.

Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct Problems (MATCH-ADTC)

This is a therapy program aimed at treating children and adolescents between the ages of 7 and 13 with symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, or behavioral problems.
The modules are delivered in an order guided by a clinical algorithm using flowcharts based on the primary area of concern (anxiety, depression, trauma-related problems, or behavioral problems).

Adult-Focused Family Behavior Therapy

This is an outpatient program aimed at adult women from 26 to 55 years of age. It adopts a comprehensive approach, focusing on training in the cognitive and behavioral skills that help manage problematic behaviors, such as substance use and child neglect.
Treatment components include:
1) Contingency management to reinforce behavioral goals, using the family support system;
2) Communication skills training to improve family relationships;
3) Environmental restructuring to increase time with positive influences;