Multidimensional treatment foster care was more effective than group care for chronic juvenile offenders
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Juvenile justice girls' depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation 9 years after Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care.
OBJECTIVE Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) has been found to reduce delinquency among girls in juvenile justice through 2-year follow-up. Given that such girls are at elevated risk for suicide and depression into adulthood, we tested MTFC effects on long-term trajectories of suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms. METHOD Girls (N = 166; mean [SD] age = 15.3 [1.2] years; 68% Wh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence-Based Mental Health
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1362-0347
DOI: 10.1136/ebmh.2.1.12