Description: Integrative Family and Systems Treatment (I-FAST) is based on common factors in family treatment. This book provides the theory, strategies, and interventions for how to teach, supervise, and provide this effective yet flexible user friendly approach to working with youth and families in mental health and community settings.
Review Quotes: "Integrative Family and Systems Treatment is a timely addition to the metaframework movement. Fraser and colleagues' very readable text presents a metamodel of family therapy organized around common factors of effective treatment. The[y] do a skillful job of describing how practitioners can collaboratively construct frames with parents and youths to set up a treatment direction, as well as implement interventions that engage the family members and the systems in which they are involved. Overall, the authors do a skillful job of laying out their metamodel of working with families of at-risk children that reaches practitioners, supervisors, and clinical administrators. The authors provide readers with a clear and detailed outline of the core components of I-FAST, complete with helpful figures, case examples, and relevant research. The final result is a text poised to make a promising contribution to the field of family therapy." --Rachel M. Diamond, Jay Lebow, PsycCRITIQUES
"I-FAST capitalizes on the common clinical skills already possessed by most practitioners, such as engaging authentically with all parties and systems involved, tracking interventions, and framing and reframing. This book provides a clear manual of how to implement the I-FAST. The authors of I-FAST also appeal to administrators by emphasizing the cost-effectiveness of using a more flexible treatment approach while still employing the use of evidence- based approaches. This manual is a great addition to a professional library for a new graduate or an established practitioner as it reminds us of the shared strengths across family and systems approaches to best serve the youth and families with whom we work." --The Family Psychologist