Ages: 6-12 & Families
Contact: José Szapocznik, Ph.D.
Spanish Family Guidance Center
Center for Family Studies
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Miami
1425 N.W. 10th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33136
Phone: 305/243-4592, Fax: 305/243-5577
Family Effectiveness Training (FET) is an evidence-based prevention/early intervention modality developed by the Center for Family Studies at the University of Miami. FET successfully reduces child problems in 6-12 year old Hispanic children and strengthens their families. In addition to its demonstrated effectiveness, FET has the added advantage of being attractive to potential facilitators and client/families alike because it is presented as a socially acceptable, culturally oriented, didactic/experiential package aimed at enhancing family adjustment. FET provides families with the tools to overcome individual, peer and family risk factors through: 1) focused interventions to change targeted maladaptive patterns of interaction, 2) skills building strategies to strengthen families, and 3) development of a bicultural worldview within families to prevent culture clashes between parents and children.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Model Program, (PDF), 2001