Alternative Education for Behavior Disordered and Delinquent Adolescent Youth: What Works — Maybe?

Mesinger, John F.

doi:10.1177/019874298200700205

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“…Currently, the prognosis for severely disturbed students seeking high school diplomas is poor (Mesinger, 1982). In one study, students who were psychotic (psychosis being the most severe form of mental illness) or brain damaged did significantly worse in school adjustment following treatment (Johnson & Rubin, 1964).…”

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Predicting educational achievement levels of the severely mentally ill: Implications for the psychosocial program administrator.

Cook¹,

Wessell²,

Dincin³

1987

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal

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In order to assist psychosocial administrators in understanding the educational needs of their members, this study explores the correlates of achievement levels in reading and mathematics among a population of 248 urban psychiatric rehabilitation clientele at time of intake. Because academic assessment assists the staff in addressing the functional limitations of clients, such information can be used to design a set of rehabilitative services specifically tailored for individual members. Results revealed a specification effect in the data in which factors related to academic performance among minorities were different from those factors related to performance among non-minorities. Regression analysis indicated that age had greater predictive power for the scores of minority members, while parental marital status and clients' gender were significant only in the non-minority equations. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for program development and planning by the psychosocial administrator.

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Section: Illness Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predicting educational achievement levels of the severely mentally ill: Implications for the psychosocial program administrator.

Cook¹,

Wessell²,

Dincin³

1987

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal

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“…The more recent trend has been to maintain them in the community through placement in day programs or alternative schools (Mesinger, 1982(Mesinger, , 1986.…”

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The Effectiveness of Social Work in an Alternative School for High School Dropouts

Franklin¹,

McNeil

Wright

1991

Social Work With Groups

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A Graduate School of Social Work and a Private Alternative School collaborated to develop an educational treatment program for high school dropout youth. The treatment program incorporated a mutual aid framework which was administered in the context of a multi-component treatment program. The treatment program is described in some detail including a Social Group Work approach for intervening with the youth. The outcomes of participants were evaluated utilizing several pretest to post-test measures of behavioral and academic functioning. An external criteria for success was also used. T-test analysis of pretest to post-test changes showed statistically significant progress on several measures. Analysis of the external criteria indicated a 73% success rate.

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Alternative Education for Behaviorally Disordered Youths: A Promise Yet Unfulfilled

Mesinger

1986

Behavioral Disorders

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The purpose of this article is to show the following: (a) Over a third of incarcerated delinquents are handicapped, needing special education treatment; (b) parallel trends to deinstitutionalize delinquents and to develop alternatives to public school for behaviorally disordered youths are putting some individuals from each category in the same alternative settings; (c) several other stress inducing societal trends are likely to increase the number of these youths; (d) the state of research in the field is poor (particularly lacking in long term evaluations); and (e) the belief that new prosocial behaviors inculcated (especially) by short term treatments will persist without subsequent changed social psychological support for clients is likely to be chimerical.

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Alternative Education for Behavior Disordered and Delinquent Adolescent Youth: What Works — Maybe?

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Predicting educational achievement levels of the severely mentally ill: Implications for the psychosocial program administrator.

Predicting educational achievement levels of the severely mentally ill: Implications for the psychosocial program administrator.

The Effectiveness of Social Work in an Alternative School for High School Dropouts

Alternative Education for Behaviorally Disordered Youths: A Promise Yet Unfulfilled

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