1st Edition
Family Empowerment Intervention An Innovative Service for High-Risk Youths and Their Families
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Use this important intervention to improve your practice with substance-using youths and their families! This vital book gives you a detailed review of a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded, long-term clinical trial of the Family Empowerment Intervention (FEI). The subjects are youths who have been arrested and processed at the Hillsborough County Juvenile Assessment Center and their... Read more
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. The Need for Effective, Cost-Efficient Intervention Services for High-Risk Youths
- Strengths and Limitations of Case Management and Referral Services
- A Study of Preliminary Screening
- The Importance of Family Interventions with an Ecological Focus
- Criteria for Evaluating Intervention Programs
- Organization of Report
- Chapter 2. Overview of Family Empowerment Intervention
- Theoretical Foundations
- Goals
- Structural Intervention Strategies
- Phases of the Intervention
- Categories of Families Served by the FEI
- Involving Families and Moving Them Through the FEI to Graduation
- The Field Consultants
- Roles and Responsibilities of Key Supervisory Personnel
- Clinical Policies
- Ensuring the Integrity of Intervention Services
- Implementing the FEI
- Chapter 3. Youths and Families Involved in the Youth Support Project
- Setting for the YSP
- Selecting Youths and Families for Enrollment in the YSP
- Data-Collection Procedures
- Characteristics of Youths at Baseline Interview
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Impact of the Family Empowerment Intervention on Crime
- Case Type
- Official Record Outcomes
- Self-Reported Delinquency
- Influence of Change in Project’s Clinical Leadership on Outcomes
- Chapter 5. Impact of the Family Empowerment Intervention on Alcohol and Other Drug Use
- Short-Term Impact on Alcohol/Other Drug Use
- Long-Term Impact on Alcohol/Other Drug Use
- Influence of Change in Project’s Clinical Leadership on Outcomes
- Chapter 6. Impact of the Family Empowerment Intervention on Emotional/Psychological Functioning
- Short-Term Impact on Emotional/Psychological Functioning
- Long-Term Impact on Emotional Psychological Functioning
- Influence of Change in Project’s Clinical Leadership on Outcomes
- Summary of Findings
- Chapter 7. Conclusions and Directions for the Future
- Short-Term Impact of the FEI
- Long-Term Impact of the FEI
- Could Project Referrals to Services Account for Its Impact, Not the FEI?
- Cost-Saving Benefits of the FEI
- How Could the FEI Be Improved?
- Next Steps
- Appendix A. Time 1 Summary Measures for Six Sets of Major Variables
- Appendix B. Parent-Adolescent Communication (Adolescent and Mother Form)
- Appendix C. Publications Resulting from the Youth Support Project and Family Empowerment Intervention
- Appendix D. Percentage of ESI Youths, FEI Noncompleters, and FEI Completers Who Reported Receiving Various Services During the Second Follow-Up Period
- Appendix E. Percentage of ESI Youths, FEI Noncompleters, and FEI Completers Who Reported Receiving Various Services During the Third Follow-Up Period
- References
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Pallone, Letitia C; Dembo, Richard; Schmeidler, Robert James
