Book chapter
Treatment Needs and Amenability
Evaluating Juvenile Transfer and Disposition, pp 134-157
2017
Abstract
The primary major criteria applicable to both transfer and disposition decisions across jurisdictions are risk for recidivism and treatment needs, with additional criteria of treatment amenability and sophistication-maturity used in transfer cases. This chapter reviews and integrates the relevant social science research in this area, by describing the role of treatment needs as a legal focus in both transfer and disposition decisions. It discusses the literature that defines treatment amenability, a construct that is more applicable to transfer than disposition, and describes best practices for conducting assessments of treatment amenability. The chapter reviews the research on treatment needs for justice-involved youth, and the factors that are empirically associated with amenability. Given the central role of treatment amenability in forensic mental health assessments of juvenile offenders, defining treatment amenability is particularly important. The assessment of treatment needs is an important component of FMHA in disposition evaluations as well as transfer evaluations.
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- Title
- Treatment Needs and Amenability
- Creators
- Kirk HeilbrunDavid DeMatteoChristopher KingSarah Filone
- Publication Details
- Evaluating Juvenile Transfer and Disposition, pp 134-157
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Other Identifier
- 991019203696804721