This study evaluated home-based family therapy. The clients-116 high-risk urban disadvantaged teenage mothers and their children-received case management and supportive counseling or these services plus family therapy. At the 12-month follow-up the family therapy clients were less dependent on welfare and had improved more on all 3 parenting dimensions but at 24 months there were no significant differences between the groups. (authors)
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Cherniss et al. (1996) studied this question.