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Background Information??? 家庭和社区介入治疗可以帮助每个家庭成员认识和解决家庭中的问题，促进相互理解、相互帮助，避免患者在治疗后又回到一个病态家庭中去；也可以帮助患者摆脱依赖，同时也消除患者给家庭成员造成的心理创伤。???????????????????????? When the cure is not worth the cost? Thanks to research by the National Institutes of Health and academic scientists during the last three decades, we now have proven [?pru:vn] treatments for depression, addiction and other mental disorders. But all too often clinicians do not use them.? Without financial incentives to provide treatments that are known to work, many mental health professionals stick with what they know, or pick up on the latest fad, or even introduce their own untested innovations--which in turn are spread by testimonials and credulous news media coverage.? Similarly, one of the most common approaches to alcoholism treatment involves having counselors and fellow alcoholics confront patients and force them to identify themselves as alcoholics. But research finds that the more a counselor confronts, the more a patient drinks and the more likely he is to drop out of treatment. And no association between accepting the label alcoholic and quitting drinking has been found. Counselor empathy---not confrontation-is connected with recovery.? According to a review by the Institute of Medicine in 2006, only 10.5 percent of alcoholics received care consistent with scientific knowledge of the disorder; similarly, 43 percent of children in psychiatric hospitals are given antipsychotic medication despite not suffering from psychosis. Tough boot camps for troubled teenagers--which have been proven to be ineffective and potentially harmful--thrive, while multi-systemic family therapy, which effectively treats teenagers at home, is available only through the juvenile justice system.? Take the well-known approach featured on the cable TV reality show Intervention aimed at getting addicts and alcoholics into treatment. Here, the family and sometimes the employer gather with a counselor, confront the addict and threate