Gloucestershire Functional Families Team

• Local Offer

The Gloucestershire Functional Families Team (GFFT) is part of CAMHS and provides therapeutic family intervention to help young people aged between 10- 17 years at risk of offending behaviour or being taken into care and their families.

The countywide service works with young people and their families/carers through 8-20 sessions over 3-6 months to look into unhelpful patterns of behaviour and to develop positive change with a focus on relationships.

What we do

Functional Family Therapy is a strength-based programme designed to increase hope, communication and supportiveness while decreasing blame, negativity and dysfunctional patterns of behaviour.

We look at the family and wider relationships and work together to develop strategies aimed at improving family relationships and skills are focused on achieving change based upon unique challenges, individual qualities and strengths of each family. Behaviour change is planned to minimise risks and maximise protective factors for each family.

We work to establish rapport with all family members and aim for lasting change. We help to plan for maintaining progress and planning for being able to manage future challenges.

 Areas of focus include:

• offending
• family relationships
• communication
• substance misuse
• aggression or conflict
• child sexual exploitation/criminal exploitation
• truancy or poor school attendance
• running away or going missing
• mental health