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âI Donât Care About What You Want!â: The Relation Between Juvenile Delinquentsâ Responses to Social Problem Situations and Empathy in Secure Juvenile Institutions
The present study examined the relation between juvenile delinquentsâ responses to social problem situations and empathy in secure juvenile institutions. The sample consisted of 79 delinquent boys (62%) and 49 delinquent girls (38%), aged 12 to 19 years. Results showed problems with accepting authority to be negatively related to both affective and cognitive empathy. Inadequate coping with competition was negatively related to cognitive empathy, whereas problems with receiving or giving help were negatively related to affective empathy. The central role of authority problems suggests that group workers could influence adolescentsâ empathy development by helping them to learn to cope with social problem situation
âI Donât Care About What You Want!â:The Relation Between Juvenile Delinquentsâ Responses to Social Problem Situations and Empathy in Secure Juvenile Institutions
The present study examined the relation between juvenile delinquentsâ responses to social problem situations and empathy in secure juvenile institutions. The sample consisted of 79 delinquent boys (62%) and 49 delinquent girls (38%), aged 12 to 19 years. Results showed problems with accepting authority to be negatively related to both affective and cognitive empathy. Inadequate coping with competition was negatively related to cognitive empathy, whereas problems with receiving or giving help were negatively related to affective empathy. The central role of authority problems suggests that group workers could influence adolescentsâ empathy development by helping them to learn to cope with social problem situation
The feelings of others donât impress me much:Effects of Living Group Climate on Empathy in Adolescent Male Offenders
Perceived Living Conditions of Young People in Secure Residential Care: Psychometric Properties of the Best Interest of the Child â Self-Report Questionnaire (BIC-S)
The associations between structural treatment characteristics and post-treatment functioning in compulsory residential youth care
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102944.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)In 2005 a new compulsory residential treatment program was developed for adolescents in need for protection against themselves or their environment.
The aim of the present study was to examine the association of structural treatment characteristics of this new residential treatment program (i.e., duration of treatment, discharge status, and group composition in terms of sex) with post-treatment functioning. Additionally, the number of pre-treatment risk factors was included in the model.
A total of 301 adolescents (174 boys, 127 girls), with a mean age at time of admittance of 15.50 (SD = 1.26) participated in this study. The number of risk factors was derived from treatment files of the adolescents at time of entrance. Six months after discharge, adolescents participated in a telephone interview to measure ten post-treatment variables indicating how well they were doing.
The results showed that duration of treatment was related to post-treatment living situation, in that adolescents who were in treatment for shorter durations were more likely to live on their own after treatment. For discharge status, findings suggested that adolescents who were regularly discharged had more frequent contact with their family; however, they also showed higher alcohol consumption 6 months after treatment. Group composition was related to the girls' official offending, indicating that girls placed in mixed-sex groups showed significantly fewer official police contacts than did girls in girls-only treatment groups.
Overall, structural treatment characteristics were hardly related to the adolescents' functioning after treatment. Suggestions for future research are discussed.20 p