Brief Strategic Family Therapy® (BSFT®) is an effective, problem focused, and practical approach to the elimination of substance abuse risk factors. It successfully reduces problem behaviors in children and adolescents 6 to 17 years old and strengthens their families.

The BSFT® Program provides families with tools to decrease individual and family risk factors through focused interventions that improve problematic family relations and skill-building strategies that strengthen families. 

The program fosters parental leadership, appropriate parental involvement, mutual support among parenting figures, family communication, problem solving, clear rules and consequences, nurturing, and shared responsibility for family problems. In addition, the program provides specialized outreach strategies to bring families into therapy.

Average Length of Service: 12-16 weeks depending on family need.

Contact & Frequency Location: Weekly In home family therapy session for 60-90 mins. Offered elsewhere at family's request

Average Caseload: 7-12 families per Clinician; Counselors have Master's and an active license.

Core Components: BSFT is designed for families to learn how to effectively manage behaviors, strengthen familial relationships, and improve parenting structure to assist in stabilizing youth and themselves.

Last Updated: 02/19/26