The name is absent

Nelson et al.

Research driven

1. Criminal

The

The SET

Study grant?

SET therapists

(a) Not reported, although likely to be

No statistical

(2000)

Applying
a f a mi Iy-
ecosystemic
model to
reunite a family
separated due
to child abuse:
a case study

WOE: Low

Case study
N=1 family

intervention:

Funding
provided by
Center for
Mental Health
Research on
Aids, National
Institute of
Mental Health.

'Structural
Ecosystems
Therapy (SET)
appears to be

justice system
staff (probation
officer, court
welfare officer,
prison staff
etc.)

2. Counsellor/
therapist

3. Social
worker

4. Health care
worker

participant’s
assigned
therapist

therapist
appears to be
the main broker
for the users

(Study funded
by Centre for
Mental Health
Research on
AIDS.)

liaise and
mediate
between
different
agencies, such
as child welfare
services, the
court, health
services etc.

In this case,
improvement
needed in
relation
between

referred by health or social services
agencies rather than self-referral.
Stated that this mother was randomly
assigned to SET as part of a bigger
study of the service.

(b) targets HIV+ African American
mothers

(c) Facilitators to maintaining women
in the intervention:

• Participant involvement in decisions
• Participant develops their own
individualized treatment goals

• Intensive intervension

• peer∕family support

• 'The majority of the sessions take
place in the woman’s home’ (p 127)
(d) Not reported (USAonly)

outcomes

in response
to difficulties
in re-uni ting
families
because of
tensions
between
families and
child welfare/
legal services

Not reported

individuals
from different
agencies

and it aims
to mediate
between
families and
these agencies,
as well as
providing
additional
family support.’

Negotiations/
persuasion by
the therapist

Perceptions
outcomes

Improve
relationships
between the
family