Multisystemic therapy compared with management as usual for adolescents at risk of offending: the START II RCT

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Background The Systemic Therapy for At Risk Teens (START) trial is a randomised controlled trial of multisystemic therapy (MST) compared with management as usual (MAU). The present study reports on long-term follow-up of the trial (to 60 months). Objectives The primary objective was to compare MST and MAU for the proportion of young people in each group with criminal convictions up to 60 months post baseline. Secondary outcomes included group comparisons of psychological and behavioural fac...

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Authors: Fonagy, P; Butler, S; Cottrell, D; Scott, S; Pilling, S

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: National Institute for Health and Care Research
• Journal: Health and Social Care Delivery Research
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 23
• Pages: 1-114
• Publication date: 2020-05-01
• DOI: 10.3310/hsdr08230
• ISSN: 2050-4349
• Language: English
• Keywords: Psychiatry; Pediatrics; Group psychotherapy; Psychological intervention; Family medicine; Medicine; Psychology; Clinical psychology; Randomized controlled trial; Physical therapy