Lessons From Pair Counseling With Incarcerated Juvenile Delinquents
✍ Scribed by Edward E. Moody Jr.
- Book ID
- 102870700
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 975 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1055-3835
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✦ Synopsis
Pair counseling was used with incarcerated juvenile offenders with emotional problems to examine its effectiveness in increasing moral reasoning, improving interpersonal relationships, and reducing recidivism. Qualitative results presented in case studies provided support for improvement in peer relationships.
he problem of juvenile crime has increasingly concerned Americans. Between 1988 and 1992, juvenile arrests for violent crime increased 50%, T and in 1991 juveniles were responsible for 19% of all violent crimes (National Center for Juvenile Justice, 1995). It is predicted that if the trend continues as it has over the past 10 years, juvenile arrests will double by the year 2010 (National Center for Juvenile Justice, 1995). This increases the need for practitioners to examine approaches to prevent the spread of juvenile delinquency.. Juvenile delinquents have many problems that contribute to the difficulty *of treating them. They have been found to have poor social skills (Dishion, Loeber, Stouthamer-Loeber, & Patterson, 1984; Freedman, Donahoe, Rosenthal, Schlundt, & McFall, 1978;Kaplan & Arbuthnot, 1985) and cognitive skills, which include an inability to anticipate the consequences of one's actions (MacDonald, 1976; McColgan, 1975). Practitioners who use problem-solving approaches have demonstrated success in alleviating poor social skills with delinquents (Dodge, 1980; Rubin & Krasnor, 1986; Spivack & Shure, 1976). Although young offenders can be taught these skills and demonstrate them in a controlled environment (i.e., correctional institute, school), they often have difficulty generalizing these skills to their interactions in the community (De lange, Lanham, &Barton, 1981). Other research has indicated that delinquent youths possess problem-solving skills but are deficient in recognizing real-life situations in which the skills are required (Cunliffe