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Bilukha, Oleg ; Briss, Peter A. ; Corso, Phaedra S. ; Crosby, Alex ; Fullilove, Mindy T. ; ... More +
Bilukha, Oleg ; Briss, Peter A. ; Corso, Phaedra S. ; Crosby, Alex ; Fullilove, Mindy T. ; Hahn, Robert A., 1945- ; Liberman, Akiva ; Lowy, Jessica ; Moscicki, Eve K. ; Schofield, Amanda ; Snyder, Susan ; Tuma, Farris Less -
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Task Force on Community Preventive Services (U.S.)
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In therapeutic foster care programs, youths who cannot live at home are placed in homes with foster parents who have been trained to provide a structured environment that supports their learning social and emotional skills. To assess the effectiveness of such programs in preventing violent behavior among participating youths, the Task Force on Community Preventive Services conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature regarding these programs. Reported and observed violence, including violent crime, were direct measures. Proxy measures were externalizing behavior (i.e., behavior in which psychological problems are acted out), conduct disorder, and arrests, convictions, or delinquency, as ascertained from official records, for acts that might have included violence. Reviewed studies assessed two similar interventions, distinguished by the ages and underlying problems of the target populations. Therapeutic foster care for reduction of violence by children with severe emotional disturbance (hereafter referred to as cluster therapeutic foster care) involved programs (average duration: 18 months) in which clusters of foster-parent families cooperated in the care of children (aged 5-13 years) with severe emotional disturbance. The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of this intervention in preventing violence. Therapeutic foster care for the reduction of violence by chronically delinquent adolescents (hereafter referred to as program-intensive therapeutic foster care) involved short-term programs (average duration: 6-7 months) in which program personnel collaborated closely and daily with foster families caring for adolescents (aged 12-18 years) with a history of chronic delinquency. On the basis of sufficient evidence of effectiveness, the Task Force recommends this intervention for prevention of violence among adolescents with a history of chronic delinquency. This report briefly describes how the reviews were conducted, provides additional information about the findings, and provides information that might help communities in applying the intervention locally.
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prepared by Robert A. Hahn, Jessica Lowy, Oleg Bilukha, Susan Snyder, Peter Briss, Alex Crosby, Mindy T. Fullilove, Farris Tuma, Eve K. Moscicki, Akiva Liberman, Amanda Schofield, Phaedra S. Corso.

The material in this report originated in the National Center for Environmental Health; the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention; the Division of Laboratory Sciences, the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental and the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities; the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, the Division of AIDS, STD, and TB Laboratory Research; and the Public Health Practice Program Office, and the Division of Laboratory Systems.

Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 7-8).


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Adolescent Child Foster Home Care Juvenile Delinquency Violence/prevention & Control
Series:
MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports ; v. 53, no. RR-10
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Journal Issue
Place as Subject:
United States
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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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