Treating Chronic Juvenile Offenders: Advnaces Made Through the Oregon Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Model

by Patricia Chamberlain

This work covers ways for treating chronic juvenile offenders proven to be effective in reducing juvenile crime. It features the Oregon Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Program, which has emerged as an intervention model for chronic juvenile offenders who are already placed out of the home, typically incarcerated in residential treatment facilities. It discusses factors that are known to influence the onset and escalation of antisocial behaviour...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557989966
• ISBN13: 9781557989963
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.3"