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Therapeutic Engagement as a Predictor of Retention in Adolescent Therapeutic Community Treatment
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Abdel-Salam, Sami; Gunter, Whitney D. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2014
The adolescent drug problem places a huge toll on society and a heavy burden on the criminal justice system. Research regarding the benefits of therapeutic community (TC) treatment for adolescents has shown it to be effective. Despite the ability of therapeutic communities to lower drug relapse and reduce criminality, a great deal remains unknown…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Therapy, Correlation, Predictor Variables
Enhancing and Adapting Treatment Foster Care: Lessons Learned in Trying to Change Practice
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Murray, Maureen M.; Southerland, Dannia; Farmer, Elizabeth M.; Ballentine, Kess – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2010
Evidence-based practices to improve outcomes for children with severe behavioral and emotional problems have received a great deal of attention in children's mental health. Therapeutic foster care (TFC), a residential intervention for youth with emotional or behavioral problems, is one of the few community-based programs that is considered to be…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Intervention, Children, Foster Care
Foundation Care: A Treatment Model for Nonambulatory Profoundly Mentally Retarded Persons.
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LaMendola, Walter F.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1987
Two institutional treatment models--Intermediate Care Facilities and Foundation Care--were compared with 30 profoundly mentally retarded adults. The Foundation Care model (which emphasized habilitation through health, nurturance, stimulation, and play) demonstrated more resident-oriented management practices and used more tactile modalities and…
Descriptors: Adults, Institutionalized Persons, Models, Program Effectiveness
Residential Workers' Pack.
Rimmer, Alan, Ed. – 1986
The packet of information is intended to help residential workers with disturbed children in the United Kingdom. The first section on theory contains two papers: "Which Children Come Into Residential Care?" (Robin Benians); and "Models of Treatment: Behavioral, Psychodynamic, Cognitive" (Daphne Lennox). The next section…
Descriptors: Attendants, Behavior Change, Emotional Disturbances, Foreign Countries
A Cognitive Therapy Model for Behaviorally Disturbed Adolescents at a Residential Treatment Facility.
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Rosen, Marvin – Education and Treatment of Children, 1998
Presents a cognitive therapy model developed at a residential treatment facility for adolescents with both child-welfare and mental-health involvement, and failures in previous hospitalizations and placements. Emphasis is on using the child's verbalizations in treatment as a measure of his/her illogical or unrealistic cognitions. Offers a 12-step…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Child Welfare, Cognitive Restructuring
Adolescent Perpetrator Treatment Programs: Program Models.
Abbey, Joan M. – 1987
It has become increasingly evident that juveniles are the perpetrators of a substantial nunber of sexual assaults. Programs designed to treat these adolescent perpetrators usually have similar goals. They attempt to reduce the youth's risk of recidivism by helping him to recognize his problem, take responsibility for his actions, learn how to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Attitude Change, Behavior Change