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Research on the Cost of Providing Family Therapy: A Summary and Progress Report

Brigham Young University, USA, RussCrane{at}byu.edu

This article provides a summary of effectiveness research on the costs of including family therapy in mental health services. Data was available from four different sources: 1) a large western Health Maintenance Organization with 180,000 subscribers in the local Utah region; 2) the Medicaid system of the entire State of Kansas in the United States; 3) a US health insurance company with several million subscribers; and 4) a Family Therapy training clinic. Results suggest that family therapy reduces the number of health care visits, especially for high utilizers. These results were also replicated in a graduate student training clinic. Also, studies of two different health care systems (and a cost projection study) suggest that including family therapy as a treatment option does not significantly increase health care costs.

Key Words: effectiveness • family therapy • research

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 12, No. 2, 313-320 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1359104507075940


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