Treating Adolescents With Family-based Mindfulness

A new take on therapeutic mindfulness with specific applications to troubled and delinquent youth is the focus of this innovative text. It introduces Family Mode Deactivation Therapy (FMDT) and its core concepts and methodologies, differentiating it from other cognitive and mindfulness therapies for adolescents with problem behaviors and comorbid conditions. Step by step applications of FMDT from case conceptualization to assessment and treatment are featured, with detailed case studies demonstrating its effectiveness in treating mood disorders, aggressive behavior and trauma and guidelines for its use with abusive families and other complex cases. The book's depth of clinical detail and appendix of therapist tools make it especially practical.

Included in the coverage:

• A comparison of MDT with other cognitive approaches.
• The empirical status of MDT.
• Mindfulness in MDT process, and in the treatment room.
• FMDT and sexual offender youth.
• MDT and mindfulness in the context of trauma.
• Treating the "untreatable": FMDT and challenging populations.

While Treating Adolescents with Family-Based Mindfulness is immediately useful to practicing psychotherapists, it should also be of interest to other professionals with a role in adolescent health care, such as policymakers, social workers, supervisors, juvenile corrections and youth center personnel and students and researchers.

Jack Apsche, Ed.D., ABPP, is a psychologist, author, artist, presenter, consultant, and lecturer based in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Apsche is a Professor of Forensic Psychology, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Walden University and the founder of the Apsche Center for Mode Deactivation Therapy. He is the only person that is 6-times board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology; in clinical child and adolescent psychology, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, cognitive and behavioral psychology, group psychology, and couples and family psychology. His primary research is in adolescent externalizing disorders. Dr. Apsche has published extensively, including several books such as “Mode Deactivation Therapy for Aggression and Oppositional Behavior in Adolescents” (2012), “Current Application: Strategies for Working with Sexually Aggressive Youth and Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems” (2010), and “Responsibility and Self-Management” (2007). Joan Swart, Psy.D., is a forensic psychologist and consultant at the Apsche Center. Her primary areas of interest are assessment and treatment of violent forensic populations, behavioral profiling, deradicalization, and the psychology of terrorism and armed conflict. Joan has authored a variety of publications and presented on topics of psychopathy and antisocial behavior, the effect of epigenetics on aggression, and serial sex offenders, including a book titled “Homicide in Armed Conflict: A Psychological Perspective”. She resides in Cape Town, and is a member of the South African Medico Legal Society and Psychological Society of South Africa, among others.