The RWJF Reclaiming Futures Initiative: Improving Substance Abuse Interventions for Justice‐Involved Youths

Nissen, Laura Burney; Butts, Jeffrey A.; Merrigan, Daniel M.; Kraft, M. Katherine

doi:10.1111/j.1755-6988.2006.tb00130.x

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“…SUD interventions also reduce behavioral risks for juvenile justice involvement (Fisher & Harrison, 2000). This is particularly important in light of evidence that most juvenile-justice-involved youth in need of SUD treatment do not receive it (Nissen, 2007), indicating that improving treatment access within the system may reduce recidivism.…”

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Adolescent Substance Use and Aggression

Doran

Luczak

Bekman

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Substance use disorders (SUDs) in youth are strongly associated with aggression, delinquency, and involvement with the juvenile justice and mental health systems. This article reviews the relationship between aggression and SUDs and discusses evidence-based approaches to assessment and intervention, with a focus on youth in secure settings. While evidence indicates etiological overlap, SUDs also confer risk for aggression and delinquent behavior. SUDs and aggression are each influenced by executive functions that develop as youth transition toward adult roles. Additionally, the effects of substance use on the adolescent brain impair neurocognitive function and increase the risk for aggression and further substance use. In terms of assessment, it is important to identify function and form of aggression in order to understand motives and associations with substance use and to select appropriate interventions. Evidence-based screening and assessment of aggression, substance involvement, and related domains is also critical. In terms of treatment, youth with SUDs tend to be underserved, particularly when they are also involved with the juvenile justice system. Multiple modes of evidence-based treatment for substance use are available. Approaches that address risk factors common to SUDs and aggression across multiple domains (e.g., family therapies) have been found to be most effective but may be difficult to adapt for use in secure settings. Individual therapy approaches also have empirical support and may generally be more practical in secure settings.

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Adolescent Substance Use and Aggression

Doran

Luczak

Bekman

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…Experts agree that interventions incorporating these elements are limited, unacceptably so (CASA, ; Nissen, Butts, Merrigan, & Kraft, ; Office of Applied Studies, ; Teplin et al., ). The foundation of basic science research to use in intervention development has never been stronger.…”

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Adapting and Implementing an Evidence‐Based Treatment with Justice‐Involved Adolescents: The Example of Multidimensional Family Therapy

Liddle

2014

Family Process

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For over four decades family therapy research and family centered evidence-based therapies for justice-involved youths have played influential roles in changing policies and services for these young people and their families. But research always reveals challenges as well as advances. To be sure, demonstration that an evidence-based therapy yields better outcomes than comparison treatments or services as usual is an accomplishment. But the extraordinary complexity embedded in that assertion feels tiny relative to what we are now learning about the so-called transfer of evidence-based treatments to real world practice settings. Today's family therapy studies continue to assess outcome with diverse samples and presenting problems, but research and funding priorities also include studying particular treatments in nonresearch settings. Does an evidence-based intervention work as well in a community clinic, with clinic personnel? How much of a treatment has to change to be accepted and implemented in a community clinic? Perhaps it is the setting and existing procedures that have to change? And, in those cases, do accommodations to the context compromise outcomes? Thankfully, technology transfer notions gave way to more systemic, dynamic, and frankly, more family therapy-like conceptions of the needed process. Implementation science became the more sensible, as well as the theoretically and empirically stronger overarching framework within which the evidence-based family based therapies now operate. Using the example of Multidimensional Family Therapy, this article discusses treatment development, refinement, and implementation of that adapted approach in a particular clinical context-a sector of the juvenile justice system-juvenile detention.

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“…Changes brought about by the Reclaiming Futures initiative require strong leaders and engaged, pro-social partners; the availability of treatment options; and accommodation of the existing system of care culture, as well as the local juvenile court with its norms and customs (Nissen et al 2006) Reclaiming Futures emphasizes the way problems of juvenile offenders are framed and incorporates a variety of strategies, based on ''strategic framing analysis'' (Gilliam and Bales 2001), to change negative perceptions of juvenile offenders that may stem from stereotyping or distortions in the popular media. Strategies include analyses of contemporary media coverage, marketing strategies to correct misperceptions, and, coordinated with communication and marketing efforts, the development of youth advocates to provide positive examples of leadership among juvenile justice-involved youth.…”

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Models to Guide System Reform for At-Risk Youth

McCarter

Haber

Kazemi

2010

Child Youth Care Forum

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Policy reform for at-risk youth is complicated by involvement of various service sectors. Issues related to coordinating systems of care in a dynamic policy environment are not new, but surprisingly little has been written to guide practitioners and policymakers in addressing them (Friedman in Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 11:11-18, 2003). To that end, a social worker, community psychologist, and nurse, working as part of a multidisciplinary team reviewed the practice literature on models to guide policy reform in justice and behavioral health systems. Five models are presented to assist community practitioners assessing similar policy reform.

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The RWJF Reclaiming Futures Initiative: Improving Substance Abuse Interventions for Justice‐Involved Youths

Cited by 21 publications

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Adolescent Substance Use and Aggression

Adolescent Substance Use and Aggression

Adapting and Implementing an Evidence‐Based Treatment with Justice‐Involved Adolescents: The Example of Multidimensional Family Therapy

Models to Guide System Reform for At-Risk Youth

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