In a second study, Santisteban and colleagues (2003) randomly assigned Hispanic (half Cuban and half from other Hispanic countries) behavior-problem and drug-abusing adolescents to receive either BSFT or adolescent-group counseling. The adolescent-group counseling condition was modeled after a widely used program in our community. The BSFT condition was significantly more efficacious than group counseling in reducing conduct problems, associations with antisocial peers, and marijuana use, and in improving observer ratings of family functioning. Baseline family functioning emerged as a moderator
of treatment effects. For families entering the study with comparatively good family functioning, family functioning remained high in the BSFT condition, whereas it