The effectiveness of a comprehensive, vocationally oriented psychotherapeutic program for adolescent delinquent boys.

Conduct problem behavior: Standardization of a behavioral rating

“…Parents have had the opportunity to observe adolescents in a wide variety of situations 347 Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 00:16 04 February 2015 that are frequently not accessible to teachers or other professionals and are valuable informants. The few successful outcome studies of the treatment of conduct problem adolescents (e.g., Alexander, Barton, Shiaro, & Parsons, 1976;Bowman, 1959;Massimo & Shore, 1963;Persons, 1966) generally have emphasized the monitoring of life events such as recidivism or employment records to evaluate the success of intervention. While these unobtrusive measures have been of critical importance, they are essentially follow-up measures of life adjustment skills and have not directly assessed the immediate impact of the treatment on the adolescent's current behavior.…”

Martinson Revisited

“…This is apart from his particular focus, in the present section, upon the differential outcomes that are associated with given types of setting and, possibly, various lengths of sentence. (18,19) of adolescent male offenders:…”

“…Massimo (1963) reported on one such program, using what might be termed a &dquo;pragmatic&dquo; psychotherapeutic approach, including &dquo;insight&dquo; therapy and a focus on vocational problems. The program was marked by its small size and by its use of therapist who were personally enthusiastic about the project; Massimo found that there was indeed a decline in recidivism rates.…”

Autonomic Reactions To Stress

“…Prior research with young offenders indicates that therapy which directly focuses on problems of daily adjustment (learning of social skills, vocational and educational issues, successful management of interpersonal affairs, and so on) is more likely to be effective than conventional, insight therapy (Massimo & Shore, 1963. Considering the many immediate and practical problems faced by the newly released offender, such an approach also seems clearly appropriate for incarcerates.…”