An evaluation of Family Futures integrative therapeutic approach v2
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An Evaluation of the Family Futures Model: An integrative therapeutic approach to working with adopted children who have experienced early life trauma.
IRAS ID
192564
Contact name
Kat Damazer
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Family Futures
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 24 days
Research summary
The Retesting Project aims to evaluate the Family Futures treatment programme by exploring the changes in behavioural, emotional and executive functioning difficulties in young people who have completed the Family Futures treatment model compared with those who attended an assessment but not treatment.
We have completed Phase 1 of the research where questionnaire scores from assessment were obtained from client files and compiled in a database. Parents were asked to complete the questionnaires that they had originally completed at the assessment stage. If the young people were currently in school, teachers were asked to complete school questionnaires. Parents completed a semi-structured interview with a researcher in their own homes. Where they agreed, children also completed a brief version of this interview.
During the research visit to the home, parents and their children completed a Marshak Interaction Method (MIM) assessment of the parent-child relationship and children completed the Child Attachment Interview (CAI).
The results of Phase 1 of the Retesting Project showed promising improvements in outcomes following the Family Futures treatment programme. We are now developing the research to include a control group, in order to increase the validity of the research and give more robust baseline data.The control group will consist of families who came for assessment at Family Futures and were recommended the full Family Futures model/treatment programme but did not attend for treatment (commonly because they were not given Local Authority funding). We will look at significant change from scores at assessment (pre-existing data) to present scores.This would mean re-administering the assessment questionnaires and interviews that families completed at assessment.
REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
16/IEC08/0013
Date of REC Opinion
6 Oct 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion