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Social skills training with adolescent offenders: A review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Sue Spence
Sue Spence
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Psychologist, Tennal School, Harborne, Birmingham
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The prevention and modification of delinquent behaviour is an issue of increasing concern to society, both in Great Britain and the U.S.A. This concern is aggravated by a growing amount of evidence which suggests that the majority of intervention procedures are not successful in preventing further offending by juvenile offenders (Cornish and Clarke, 1975, Hood and Sparks, 1970, Feldman, 1976). This appears to be true of both penal methods such as fines, probation or imprisonment (Hood and Sparks, 1970) and psychotherapeutic approaches (Logan, 1972).

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 1979 , pp. 49 - 56
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1979

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