This publication is a supplement to the Guide to Implementing Family Skills Training Programmes for Drug Abuse Prevention, which was published by UNODC in March 2009. It provides policymakers, programme managers, non-governmental organizations and others interested in implementing family skills training programmes with a review of existing evidence-based family skills training programmes. Its purpose is to provide details of the content of such programmes, the groups targeted, the materials used and the training implemented, in order to assist users in selecting the programme best suited to their needs and to offer guidance as to the kind of programmes available.
In 2007, UNODC, with the help of Karol Kumpfer of the University of Utah, began to search for family programmes around the world that were either being developed or had been implemented by Governments, non-governmental organizations or practitioners. UNODC received descriptions of some 150 programmes; the 24 programmes included in this publication are those regarded, on the basis of randomized control trials, as having had positive results. The programmes appear in descending order of the level of scientific evidence on which they are based. Detailed references are provided for each programme, as well as staffing and resources required to implement them and contact details for receiving further information and accessing tools, making this compilation a very practical and useful tool to understand the evidence on family skills training programmes, and ensuring that the programmes are appropriate for a particular purpose and context.
