Sentences with phrase «delinquent youth»

The clientele consisted of delinquent youth ages 11 - 17 from various backgrounds.

It may also provide starting points for developing or improving interventions for delinquent youth or children at risk for delinquency.

Despite these limitations, our study has important implications for research on delinquent youth and mental health policy.

The study offers the first comprehensive picture of drug and alcohol abuse and dependence in delinquent youth after detention.

Providing delinquent youth intensive contact with college student volunteers under the guidance of graduate students and university faculty has proved successful in several tests.

Wachtel: We have worked successfully with rural and suburban school districts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and in an urban school district in the Hague, Netherlands, several schools in Australia, our own alternative schools, and an alternative school for delinquent youth in New York City.

Examines organizational climate and structure effects on the behavior and functioning of delinquent youths with and without co-occurring substance use that is treated with an evidence - based treatment (EBT) for serious antisocial behavior.

Gold and Osgood (1992) found that authoritative adults who hold delinquent youths accountable while providing them some autonomy neutralize the delinquent counterculture and become more attractive models for identification.

Results of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (Roid & Fitts, 1988) administered to delinquent youth who had participated in a PPC demonstrated that participants rated themselves as having a more positive self concept and a higher level of psychological adjustment at the end of the PPC program.

«White delinquent youth more likely to abuse hard drugs than blacks: Findings call for reform addressing disproportionate incarceration of African Americans.»

Supporters say the law, passed by the Pennsylvania legislature in June, removes the bad apples from the classroom, gives delinquent youths the help they need, and ensures a safe environment for all students.

As he wrote in Growing Up Absurd: «The problem is not to get [delinquent youths] to belong to society, for they belong a priori by being the next generation.

Past research suggests that congregating delinquent youth increases their likelihood of problem behavior.

In this episode, Katherine Montgomery, MSSW and doctoral student, reports on the findings and implications of her recent study on domain - specific factors that distinguish «throwaway youth» from delinquent youth.

A study by Davis et al. (1988) addressed the change in self - concept of 231 adjudicated delinquent youth in PPC treatment.

A few efforts — mostly scare - oriented programs or programs that place groups of delinquent youth together for extended treatment — have actually worsened the behavior of participants.

These analyses are available from the authors; analyses of single disorders are available elsewhere.8 Even after excluding conduct and substance use disorders, which are common among delinquent youth, significantly more females (33.6 %) than males (24.2 %) had 2 or more disorders (t1813 = 2.81, P =.005).

Forgatch and Patterson received a grant to begin the first Oregon Divorce Study; Chamberlain and the clinical group developed a new therapeutic foster care based - treatment for delinquent youth and began to receive state and local contracts to provide services; and Reid was funded as the director of an OSLC - based post-doctoral training program.

Four interviews with delinquent youth in the process of real - life transitions reveal that predicting resilience or recidivism is not always as simple as quantifying research - identified «risk» or «protective» factors.

Whether they work with upper - middle - class parishes, ethnic or minority churches, undocumented refugees, small struggling urban churches, hospice patients, the elderly poor, delinquent youth or battered women, all students grapple with questions of class and race in a course on feminist ethics.

Instead of sending the, delinquent youth to a reform school, a tough but compassionate magistrate, Hesther Salomon, commits him to the psychiatric ward of the local hospital and convinces her friend, Dr. Martin Dysart, to take the boy as a mental patient.

Supervise and administer treatment plans for up to 11 delinquent youth in placement.

Maintain and update case files on all delinquent youth per Department of Juvenile Justice standards, policies, procedures and QI standards.

Developing delinquent youth: A reintegrative model for rehabilitation and a new role for the juvenile justice system.

Among high risk and delinquent youth they are often lacking.

Director of Recreational Therapy, Aspen Ranch, Loa, UT, July 2000 — July 2002 Facilitate emotional growth for 60 - 84 delinquent youth (ages13 - 18) in a group format.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) A randomized trial assessed the effectiveness of a 2 - level strategy for implementing evidence - based mental health treatments for delinquent youth.

The MST Therapist Adherence Measure (TAM) and the MST Supervisor Adherence Measure (SAM) have been validated in the research on MST with antisocial and delinquent youth and are now being implemented by all licensed MST programs.

The effects of temperament, psychopathy, and childhood trauma among delinquent youth: A test of DeLisi and Vaughn's temperament - based theory of crime.

Dyadic Taxonomy of Delinquent Youth.

Violent and delinquent youths: Relationships with institutional authorities and compliance with social norms

Contradictory to Hirschi's [30] hypothesis of delinquent youth having «cold and brittle» relationships, these within - person level findings demonstrate that to the degree youth enjoy an increase in parent - child bond quality, this does correspond to a decrease in levels of antisocial behavior net of potential selection factors.