A recent meta-analysis of 24 studies involving the newer, evidence-based family therapies in the treatment of adolescent substance abuse and delinquency (Baldwin et al., 2012) documented that they:
a. are better than no treatment but equivalent to treatment as usual.
b. modestly outperformed treatment as usual.
c. are much better than treatment as usual.
d. produced highly variable outcomes, making average estimates of effects difficult to interpret.
Q. 2According to the text authors, the therapeutic process of change in MST involves:
a. consciousness raising. c. contingency management.
b. counterconditioning. d. all of the above.
Q. 3MST interventions target an adolescent's:
a. school and work role functioning.
b. entire system, including family, friends, school, and neighborhood.
c. parents' ability to manage their behavior.
d. extended family relations.
Q. 4Among the most common MST youth and family engagement strategies is:
a. paying clients a small stipend each time they participate in therapy.
b. offers of a diversionary treatment program instead of a prison sentence.
c. visiting youth and family members where they live.
d. providing regularly scheduled weekly therapy sessions with pre-session reminders.
Q. 5MST uses the five Ps to:
a. facilitate youth involvement with friends who do not participate in antisocial behavior.
b. resume contact with youth and families after missed sessions.
c. improve relations among family members and other social systems.
d. provide parent management training.
Q. 6The clinical populations that are typically mandated to MST include each of the following EXCEPT:
a. recurrently suicidal youth. c. serious juvenile offenders.
b. substance abusing youth . d. violent youth.
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