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Planned treatment and outcomes in residential youth care: evidence from Sweden. |
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Children and Youth Service Review, 33(1), January 2011, pp.21-27. |
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0190-7409 |
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In Sweden approximately 3,500 adolescents reside in youth care facility, the majority due to drug abuse or juvenile delinquency. A data set of 357 teenagers placed in youth care in 1991 was used to show that planned treatment is strongly positively associated with treatment outcomes. In the short term, teenagers with planned treatment are 32% less likely to experience a treatment breakdown and 25% less likely to be reassigned to other forms of residential care after completed treatment. In the long term, teenagers with planned treatment are 21% less likely to engage in criminal behaviour and 40% less likely to be hospitalized for mental health problems. The results are robust to controlling for a rich set of potentially confounding factors: Even though observable pre-treatment teenager characteristics explain about one fifth of the variation in criminal behaviour 5–10 years after treatment, they have almost no predictive power for whether treatment is planned or unplanned. |
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intervention; outcomes; placement; recidivists; residential care; secure accommodation; substance misuse; young offenders; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=92ad1ecc-1cc0-474b-b045-483afca2b58e |
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