Family Mode Deactivation Therapy: Treatment for Adolescent Behavioral Problems

The family traditionally has played a unique role in the development and care for adolescents. For this reason, scientists have consistently sought to formulate and introduce new family-based therapeutic approaches to further enhance the functions of this important social institution. In this manuscript, for the first time in Iran, one of the new treatments in this field is discussed.

In this study, a review of the theoretical and research background in the field of family mode deactivation therapy is presented and introduced.

Family Mode Deactivation Therapy has emerged as a third wave treatment for adolescents with behavioral problems. In this treatment, a unique integration of family based mode deactivation, evaluation, enlightenment, and reorientation of fundamental beliefs techniques is used to eliminate problematic behaviors during and after treatment. This treatment is especially applicable in the context of Iranian families.

Family mode deactivation therapy, as a modern therapy, is able to reduce the behavioral problems in adolescents. Therefore, we recommend the use of this treatment to psychotherapists.