MST is the only treatment to qualify for inclusion in the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health under Home-Based Services. MST offers new hope to young people with serious behavioral disorders.

MST services offers a multisystemic therapy approach to help in the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. Learn more about Multisystemic Therapy today.

Sep 1, 2023 · Multisystemic therapy (MST) is an intense, community-based, family-involved psychotherapy model for people under 18 who have had serious legal involvement as well as potential substance use issues. It’s provided over the course of four to five months, multiple times a week; a team is available at all times in case of crises.

MST is a family-based mental health treatment model developed by Scott W. Henggeler, Ph.D., at the Family Services Research Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. MST has been validated as an effective treatment model for reducing anti-social behavior among juveniles.

MST is an evidence-based program that empowers at-risk youth and their families to function responsibly over the long term. MST reduces delinquent and antisocial behavior, child maltreatment, and substance use by addressing the core causes of behavior, and views the client as a network of systems including: •family •peers •school •community

MST’s therapeutic model aims to uncover and assess the functional origins of adolescent behavioral problems by altering the individual’s behavior in a manner that promotes prosocial conduct while decreasing aggressive/violent, antisocial, substance using and/or delinquent

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intensive family-focused treatment model for adolescents (ages 12 through 17) who exhibit high-risk behavior and/or engage in criminal activity and substance abuse.

The MST model specifies low caseloads of four to six families per clinical therapist, each of whom works together with the families to develop an enduring social support network in their own neighborhood.

The MST approach views individuals as being part of, and influenced by, a complex network of interconnected systems that encompass individual, family, and extrafamilial (peer, school, neighborhood) factors. In MST, this “ecology” of interconnected systems is viewed as the “client.”

The social-ecological theoretical framework of MST is presented as well as its home-based model of treatment delivery, defining clinical intervention strategies, and ongoing quality assurance/quality improvement system.