BSFT
BSFT helps families take back control of their children!
Crosswinds has been selected to be the first in Brevard County to implement a new form of family systems framework that was created at the University of Miami, Brief Strategic Family Therapy, or BSFT. The concept is to improve youth's behavior problems by improving family interactions that are presumed to be directly related to the child's symptoms.
Special counselors at Crosswinds have been extensively trained to target interaction patterns that are directly related to the youth's behavior problems and establishes a practical plan to help the family develop more effective patterns of interaction, where the family is viewed as a whole organism.
BSFT, a family systems framework, was designed and researched at The Center for Family Studies (CFS), a Division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami, School of Medicine.
Because of its strong reputation and outstanding record of achievement in the community and around the nation, Crosswinds was chosen by the University of Miami to be the first non-research site to implement BSFT anywhere in the country. Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) is an effective, evidence-based, parent and family focused, and practical approach to the elimination of substance abuse risk factors. BSFT successfully reduces problem behaviors in children and adolescents 6 to 17 years old and strengthens their families.
BSFT 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. For more information about Brief Strategic Family Therapy at Crosswinds, please contact the Director of Programs at 321-452-0800, ext. 130.
