NCJ Number
181957
Date Published
February 1998
Length
39 pages
Annotation
This publication describes exemplary, model, and promising programs focused on the strengthening of families and the prevention of juvenile delinquency.
Abstract
Exemplary programs focus on functional family therapy, helping noncompliant children, strengthening families with teenagers, multisystemic therapy, parent and child education, home visitation, drug use, problemsolving, family skills training, structural family therapy, and treatment foster care. Model programs are concerned with black parenting, cooperation between families and schools, families with parents who are addicted to drugs, home visitation, home instruction for preschool children, home-based behavioral systems family therapy, family preservation, parent education, nurturing skills for abusing parents, Parents Anonymous, the needs of working parents, and parents of adolescents. Promising programs deal with juvenile offender treatment, parent education, family skills training, family support, child development, parenting services, pregnancy, home-based family services, children of parents in prison, and multi-ethnic families and communities.