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Therapeutic approaches for young offenders
Published in Panos Vostanis, Helping Children and Young People Who Experience Trauma, 2021
So, where do therapeutic approaches fit in, what is their role, and what are their indications and effectiveness? On the whole, the multiple causes that lead to offending point to both integrated and multimodal interventions being more likely to succeed, and this is indeed backed up by emerging evidence. In some cases ‘multi’ components can be set up and provided in their entirety such as through multisystemic therapy, but they also need to have an exit and a sustainable plan of how other services will take over, and continue to be in tune with each other in a common direction. This philosophy is crucial, whatever the underlying framework.
Cultural and Gender Adaptations of Evidence-Based Family Interventions
Published in Marc H. Bornstein, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Families, Parents, and Children, 2020
Karol L. Kumpfer, Catia Magalhães, Jing Xie, Sheetal Kanse
Several indicated family-based prevention or treatment programs for higher risk youth with diagnosed behavioral health problems have been implemented internationally but not included in this book; hence, their cultural adaptations are discussed briefly below: Multisystemic Therapy for Delinquents and Substance Abusing Youth is an intensive family- and community-based treatment for juvenile offenders who have committed serious offences and their families. Most of the treatment is conducted in the home. It has been implemented internationally in 12 countries.Multidimensional Family Therapy is a manual-driven intervention with specific assessment and treatment modules for drug abusing youth. MDFT helps the youth develop more effective coping and problem-solving skills for better decision making and helps the family improve interpersonal functioning as a protective factor against substance abuse and related problems. MDFT has language and cultural adaptations for five countries.
Pharmacological interventions
Published in Ilana B. Crome, Richard Williams, Roger Bloor, Xenofon Sgouros, Substance Misuse and Young People, 2019
We recommend that young people who have complex needs and are at high risk are offered a range of evidence-based psychosocial interventions to improve their overall functioning and life chances. Care planning is then ‘stepped’ according to thresholds of comorbidity. Young people who have limited comorbidities and good social support may be offered individual cognitive behavioural or equivalent therapy or skilled counselling (NICE, 2010; 2011a). However, young people who have significant comorbidities and/or limited social support should be offered multi-component programmes, such as plans that include family therapy and multisystemic therapy.
The Impact of Service Referral and Engagement on Juvenile Recidivism
Published in Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2020
Most recent estimates of recidivism in juvenile justice indicate out of the estimated, 818,900 delinquency cases in 2017, the juvenile is not detained in 74% of these cases (Hockenberry, 2019). More than half of these cases are handled formally through the court system, of which many will be offered some type of alternative to detention. Previous studies have shown that youth who engaged in an intervention aimed at reducing antisocial behavior reported a decrease in recidivism rates. For example, Baglivio et al. (2014) reported a recidivism rate of about 30% for justice-involved youth who received Multisystemic Therapy (MST), an intensive home- and community-based program (Henggeler et al., 2009). P. Boxer et al. (2017) also observed a recidivism rate of 30% for both gang-involved and uninvolved youth, reflecting the potential for a preventive impact of MST intervention. Thus, engagement in an alternative to detention program such as MST can have a positive impact at reducing youth recidivism and further escalation in delinquency.
Group Intervention with Parents of Juvenile Sex Offenders
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2020
Multi-systemic therapy (MST) is derived from a socio-ecological model of development in which intervention involves working with youth within individualized, family, community, and school systems. MST is delivered in home and community settings by merging families and various other systems in the lives of youth to target risk factors in an effort to alter maladaptive behaviors (Pullman & Seto, 2012; Yoder, 2014). Intensive family therapy is a major component of MST and a predominant modality by which families are involved in the intervention process. Family intervention may involve dyadic, group, and whole-family therapy sessions (Carr, 2009; Efrat-Breitbach & Freeman, 2004; Thomas, 2010). It may address family secrets and dynamics, explore emotional triggers, aim to recognize and define roles in the family, develop new boundaries, and make some significant changes in the overall functioning of the family system (Rich, 2011; Thomas, 2010).
Shining the Light on Intersectionality: The Complexities of Similarity and Difference in the Therapeutic Process from the Perspectives of Black and Hispanic Social Workers
Published in Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2018
Joy Pastan Greenberg, Mohan Vinjamuri, Brenda Williams-Gray, Evan Senreich
For example, identity, beliefs, personality, and sharing one’s worldview may be more important to satisfaction and treatment outcomes than ethnic similarity with one’s provider (Knipscheer & Kleber, 2004). Similarly, Blanchard, Nayar, and Lurie (2007) found that for Hispanic patients in health care settings, cultural background stemming from one’s specific country of origin played a larger role than racial/ethnic similarity. For post–HIV test counseling, cultural competence and many other skills may be much more important to counseling outcomes than demographic match between therapist and client (Striley et al., 2006). Similarly, the therapist’s adherence to the treatment approach in multisystemic therapy with youth and their caregivers mattered more than ethnic similarity and difference between therapist and client (Chapman & Schoenwald, 2011).