Len Bickman

TL;DR: This meta-analysis examines associations between therapeutic relationship variables, and the extent to which they account for variability in treatment outcomes, in 49 youth treatment studies and finds the best predictors of youth outcomes were counselor interpersonal skills, therapist direct influence skills, and youth willingness to participate in treatment.

TL;DR: The authors explore the status of common process factors research in the youth and family therapy literature, and propose a theoretical model linking specific therapeutic relationship variables and treatment outcomes for children and adolescents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered outcomes at 5-year follow-up to examine long-term effects from the continuum of care, and found that the outcomes in continuum-treated children were no better than those of comparison children.

TL;DR: It may be feasible to teach parents to not use physical punishment using a population-based approach and a brief intervention, integrated into the primary care visit, can affect parents' attitudes toward using less physical punishment.

TL;DR: The Parent and Youth Vanderbilt Functioning Indexes (VFI-P and VFI-Y) are functioning problem indexes for children and adolescents that produce predictive validities better than interview-based measures of functioning and popular checklist measures of pathology and competence.