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What is MST?
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is for children and young people aged 11-17 who are at risk of being placed into care or police custody due to their offending and challenging behaviour.
MST teams go to where families live and work with the young person, family members, teachers, friends and other people in the neighbourhood. They work intensively with families for three to five months, including being on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
MST Therapists aim to:
• work intensively with parents or carers to give them the tools and resources to manage the young person’s behaviours;
• increase young people’s engagement with and success in education and training;
• promote positive activities for the parent and young person
• reduce young people’s offending and/or anti-social behaviour;
• improve family relationships
• tackle underlying problems in the young person or parent, including substance misuse.
MST is based on many years of research into what works for families and therapists use approaches, such as behavioural therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and structured family therapy to work with young people and their families.