Secure Treatment Outcomes

First published in 1998, this volume recognises that, despite the plethora of benign welfare approaches to troubled and troublesome adolescents, a small proportion find themselves locked up.

Auteur

Roger Bullock, Michael Little and Spencer Millham

Contenu

1. Introduction. 2. Services for Disordered Adolescents: Defining Who is Very Difficult. 3. Selecting the Case and Designing the Study. 4. The Characteristics of Very Difficult Young People. 5. The Treatment Experience. 6. The Two Years After Specialised Treatment Interventions. 7. Social and Anti-Social Behaviour in the Two Years After Treatment. 8. Predicting from Extensive Data. 9. Making Individual Predictions. 10. Explaining Outcomes. 11. Outcomes from Less Intensive Interventions. 12. Conclusions.