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Prevalences and configurations of mental disorders among institutionalized adolescents
Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 2007To assess prevalence figures for psychiatric disorders among institutionalized adolescents due to behavioural problems and/or delinquency.Participants were recruited from consecutive referrals to/or treated at two Swedish adolescent units, SIS1 (n = 60) and SIS2 (n = 70) with ranging age of 12-20.3 years (mean age = 16.2; SD = 1.8) during 1 year ...
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Modification of classroom behavior of institutionalized female adolescent offenders
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1968Abstract A highly reliable time sampling assessment technique, which dichotomized classroom behavior into appropriate and inappropriate categories, was used to assess classroom behavior of institutionalized female adolescent offenders. Following a two week baseline period, an operant procedure was implemented in which money was used as a reinforcer ...
D H, Meichenbaum, K S, Bowers, R R, Ross
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Adolescent Rorschach Responses as a Function of Age at First Institutionalization
Journal of Personality Assessment, 1977To test the hypothesis that age of first separation from a home environment is a factor in the emotional health of institutionalized boys, Rorschach protocols of 82 residents of Saint Francis Vocational School, a facility for deprived nondelinquent nonretarded youth aged 10 to 18, were examined.
L, Cohen, F J, Weiner
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Restraint and seclusion with institutionalized adolescents.
Adolescence, 1991Tens of thousands of the nation's young people are placed in psychiatric and criminal justice programs annually. Within those settings, many confront an assortment of restraint and seclusionary measures. This paper discusses the population of young people exposed to such procedures and examines the implications within these settings and elsewhere.
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Nutritional status of institutionalized children and adolescents with developmental disabilities
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1989The relationship was explored between anomalies associated with developmental disabilities and nutritional status of institutionalized children and adolescents who received comprehensive interdisciplinary services. Variables included dietary intake, serum laboratory values, anthropometric measurements, feeding skills assessment, and clinical assessment.
K A, Pesce, L A, Wodarski, M, Wang
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Motivating institutionalized adolescents for psychotherapy.
Adolescence, 1985In the study of psychotherapy, one surely must come to appreciate the importance of client motivation. Intuitively, its value in obtaining a successful outcome would seem unquestioned. Nonetheless, motivation for treatment has not received the attention in the literature that its importance might warrant.
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Vocational Rehabilitation of Institutionalized Delinquent Male Adolescents
The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1965Theories regarding cause and treatment of juvenile delinquency are examined. The emotional disturbance underlying delinquency is suggested as the treatment target rather than the acting out behavior per se. The treatment approach to adolescents is placed in historical perspective, reflecting relative neglect of vocational service.
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Behavior Therapy with High Level, Institutionalized, Retarded Adolescents
Exceptional Children, 1966The thesis of this paper is that instrumental, nonverbal behavior can be modified by a deliberate, repetitive, and systematic conditioning of verbal behavior according to experimentally established principles of learning. Verbal aggression or obnoxiousness, when extinguished during therapy, will lead to the extinction of overt, motor aggression, since ...
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It was previously predicted that adolescents living in institutional homes and orphanages, away from the typical nurturing environment in a family, would have more psychological symptoms than those living with their parents. A sample of Lebanese adolescents living in orphanages and institutional homes (AOI, n= 75) were compared to those living with ...
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Reading Skills in Emotionally Disturbed, Institutionalized Adolescents
The Journal of Educational Research, 1964THE MOST vital academic problem facing the I school-age child is the development of adequate language skills. As he progresses through school, reading skills, even more than adeptness in oral communication, become increasingly important. Upon his reading depends his acquisition of most other classroom subjects. Although ability to read adequately is no
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