Juvenile Justice Risk Factors and Functional Family Therapy Fidelity on Felony Recidivism

Families (n = 5,884) received Functional Family Therapy (FFT) provided as part of court-ordered probation services by 11 community sites throughout Florida. Sites provided home-based FFT to families with male (72%) or female (28%) delinquent youth. Juvenile justice courts referred clients to these s...

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VerfasserInnen: Turner, Charles W. (VerfasserIn) ; Blankenship, Julia L. (VerfasserIn) ; Robbins, Michael S. (VerfasserIn) ; Weaver, Lisa R. (VerfasserIn) ; Winokur Early, Kristin (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2019
In: Criminal justice and behavior
Jahr: 2019, Band: 46, Heft: 5, Seiten: 697-717
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Fidelity
Client caseload
Individual risk
Family therapy
Clinical process
Recidivism
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Zusammenfassung:Families (n = 5,884) received Functional Family Therapy (FFT) provided as part of court-ordered probation services by 11 community sites throughout Florida. Sites provided home-based FFT to families with male (72%) or female (28%) delinquent youth. Juvenile justice courts referred clients to these services in an effort to redirect them away from incarceration. Clients were Hispanic (18%), Black (41%), and White non-Hispanic (36%), while therapists (female, 79%) were of Hispanic (28%), Black (20%), and White non-Hispanic (50%) ethnic/racial origins. Analyses of clients’ pretreatment recidivism risk and therapist’s caseload of risky clients demonstrated that both individual and treatment site case-mix of client criminal risk levels were associated with higher adjudicated felony recidivism. Furthermore, clinical process indicators suggest that therapists with larger rather than smaller caseloads of high-risk clients provided treatment with greater fidelity. Results suggest that experience in working with challenging clients is critical for achieving fidelity with these cases.
ISSN:1552-3594
DOI:10.1177/0093854818813184