Testing Whether Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults Can Reduce Their Justice System Involvement
Document Type
Research in the WorksPublication Date
2018-02-01Keywords
EmploymentLegal Issues
Transition Age Youth
transition age youth
TAY
transition-age youth
research
emerging adults
Multisystemic Therapy
MST. MST-EA
Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults
reduce criminal behavior
intervention
randomized controlled trial
mental health
serious mental health condition
young adult
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Drs. Maryann Davis of the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Ashli Sheidow and Michael McCart of the Oregon Social Learning have previously demonstrated that Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults (MST-EA) is an intervention that successfully engages and retains young adults with serious mental health conditions in treatment. This Research in the Works is about a new trial awarded by NIMH called Effectiveness Trial of Treatment to Reduce Serious Antisocial Behavior in Emerging Adults with Mental Illness. This study builds on Drs. Davis and Sheidow’s previous work and is a randomized controlled trial comparing outcomes of 240 participants assigned to either the MST-EA intervention or enhanced treatment as usual. This study will determine if MST-EA is a more effective treatment than the enhanced usual treatment for this population. Currently, there is no intervention with proven efficacy to reduce criminal behavior for emerging adults with serious mental health conditions and this study is an important step in developing one.DOI
10.7191/pib.1122Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/44249Rights
Copyright © University of Massachusetts Medical School.Distribution License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.7191/pib.1122
Scopus Count
Collections
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as Copyright © University of Massachusetts Medical School.