Preventing Adolescents From Entering the Juvenile Justice System: Testing An Empirically-Supported, Family-Based Diversion Model
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 120
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Delinquency
研究概览
简要总结
This randomized controlled study tests an innovative juvenile diversion model that integrates evidence-based family therapy.Immediate and longer term effects of the family intervention will be compared to Services As Usual with 120 adolescents participating in Miami-Dade's Civil Citation Program.
详细描述
This study proposes to rigorously test the innovative Civil Citation Program (CCP)with an integrated evidence-based family intervention, Multidimensional Family Therapy[MDFT](Liddle, 2002).
The study sample includes youth referred to the CCP throughout Miami-Dade county and who according to CCP screening are rated as high risk for re-offending. Youth are 12-17 years old with a first or second misdemeanor charge (excluding any gang, violence, or sex crimes charge). Nearly all (97%) of these youth are ethnic minorities (Hispanic and African American). They are at risk for school failure, substance use, and chronic delinquency due to drug availability in their communities, poor family functioning, peer drug use/delinquency, and school failure / disengagement.
120 youth who enter the Civil Citation Program and are eligible for the study will be assigned to one of the two interventions: CCP+SAU or the experimental intervention, CCP+MDFT.
The study asks a classical services research question(Compton et al, 2005) - does the addition of a family therapy intervention, multidimensional family therapy, into an existing diversion program significantly enhance the program outcomes in key outcome domains: recidivism, substance use, delinquency, school and family functioning.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Factorial
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 12 Years 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Youth 12 to 17 years old
- •Parent or guardian willing to participate in assessments/treatment
- •Demonstrate risk for mental health, substance abuse, or anger/adjustment problems on the Juvenile Services Department screening warranting intervention but not requiring residential treatment
排除标准
- •Youth under the age of 12 or over the age of 18
- •Parent/guardian not willing to participate in assessments and treatment
- •Youth not demonstrating mental health, substance abuse or anger/adjustment problems
- •Youth requiring residential treatment
- •Youth with severe mental illness or retardation
结局指标
主要结局
Delinquency
时间窗: Intake through 9-month follow-up
Youth in CCP+MDFT will show less delinquency from intake to 9 months than youth in CCP+SAU. National Youth Survey Self-Report Delinquency Scale (SRD)will be used to assess delinquency.
Recidivism
时间窗: 6 months prior to arrest that got youth in the CCP through 24 months after the baseline assessment
Juvenile justice arrest records recoding total arrests, total misdemeanor arrests, and total felony arrests for youth 6 months prior to baseline through 24 months after baseline.
次要结局
- Substance Use(Intake through the 9-month follow-up)
研究者
Howard Liddle
Professor
University of Miami