Alternative Treatments for Troubled Youth : the Case of Diversion from the Justice System

"The purpose of this volume is to present the whole story of our research program on alternative interventions with delinquent youth. It is our goal to describe the development of an alternative intervention model, to examine its salient processes, to provide a test of its relative effectiveƯ ness, and to give a description of its systemic impacts. The process described was based on the notion that improvement in our approaches to troubled youth lies in a systematic examination of the efficacy of innovative models. As the reader is probably aware, the history of interƯ ventions with troubled youth is more a record of failure than success. Thus, the search for alternatives is extremely critical. The book proceeds as a detailed research monograph. The first four chapters describe the historical and theoretical antecedents of the develƯ opment of the research program. Chapters 5 through 11 describe reƯ search on the efficacy of alternative intervention approaches for delinƯ quent youth, research on the impact on nonprofessional change agents, an attempt to integrate contemporary theoretical propositions about deƯ linquency causation and the effects observed, and research examining the systemic consequences of providing innovative interventions to deƯ linquent youth. The final chapter integrates the findings with contempoƯ rary work and provides suggestions for future work"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Historical Context....Pages 1-7 Major Theoretical Positions....Pages 9-16 Empirical History of Treatment Efficacy....Pages 17-37 Theories of Delinquency Intervention and Treatment Research Strategies....Pages 39-52 Study I and Study II: Research Methods....Pages 53-77 Study I: Intervention Process and Outcome Results....Pages 79-101 Study II: Intervention Process and Outcome Results....Pages 103-121 Assessment of the Volunteers....Pages 123-142 Models of Delinquency Intervention....Pages 143-186 Systemic Impact: Methods and Procedures....Pages 187-201 Systemic Impact: Results....Pages 203-225 Conclusions and Implications....Pages 227-241 Back Matter....Pages 243-293