The present study evaluates the Youth Initiated Mentoring (YIM) approach in which families and youth care professionals collaborate with an informal mentor, who is someone adolescents (aged twelve to twenty-three) nominate from their own social network. The informal mentor can be a relative, neighbour …

Local street cultures may appear more or less “extreme,” depending on several contextual factors. Using focus groups, the current study aimed to explore what children, aged 7 to 12 years, think of the assumption that parents play an important role on the street to increase safety in the public domain. …

The current study investigated the effect on recidivism of treatment aimed at juveniles who have sexually offended. It also assessed the potential moderating effect of type of recidivism, and several treatment, participant and study characteristics. In total, 14 published and unpublished primary studies, …

Residential youth care settings should provide youth with safe environments where they are supported and treated. However, there are aspects of residential youth care that threaten its effectiveness, and which may also violate children’s rights. Staff members exercise power over the youth, which can …

This study meta-analytically examined the effect of treatment integrity on client outcomes of evidence-based interventions for juveniles with antisocial behavior. A total of 17 studies, from which 91 effect sizes could be retrieved, were included in the present 3-level meta-analysis. All included studies, …

Violence is a common problem in secure residential units for young people. Group workers often think that young people have to learn to behave by means of punishment. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether this approach is effective in these settings, and, if so, under what circumstances. …

Het uitgangspunt van de jeugdzorg anno 2014/2015 is dat jongeren met (ernstige) gedragsproblemen kunnen leren participeren in de Nederlandse samenleving. Gaat dit ook op voor delinquente jongeren in de Justitiële Jeugdinrichtingen? Waarschijnlijk wel, maar zeker weten doen we het nog niet.

Deze rapportage geeft inzicht in de onderzoeken naar het leef- leer- en werkklimaat in de Justitiële Jeugdinrichtingen in Nederland verricht in 2014. Dit gebeurt in opdracht van het Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie en de afzonderlijke inrichtingen en wordt uitgevoerd door Hogeschool Leiden (Expertisecentrum …

In de gesloten jeugdzorg vormt de negatieve spiraal van agressie en straf een probleem voor zowel jongeren als medewerkers vanwege een verslechterend leefklimaat. In dit artikel een nadere beschouwing over het denken van de effecten van straf bij pedagogisch medewerkers.

This systematic review evaluates the implementation of treatment integrity procedures in outcome studies of youth interventions targeting behavioral problems. The Implementation of Treatment Integrity Procedures Scale (ITIPS), developed by Perepletchikova, Treat, and Kazdin (2007), was adapted (ITIPS-A) …