Secure Treatment Centres
Care Careers of Very Difficult Adolescents
Published on 25. June 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-1-84014-458-1 (ISBN)
Description
This work explores the care careers of adolescents in long-stay treatment units with emotional and conduct disorders. But this is only one part of the equation for treatment eligibility - the other being the professional, administrative and legal framework in which the problems are addressed.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, figures, appendix, index
Dimensions
Height: 154 mm
Width: 218 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84014-458-1 (9781840144581)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Services for disordered adolescents - defining who is very difficult; selecting the cases and designing the study; the characteristics of very difficult young people; the treatment experience; the two years after specialized treatment intervention; social and anti-social behaviour in the two years after treatment; predicting from extensive data; making individual predictions; explaining outcomes; outcomes from less intensive interventions.