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Treatment Needs and Amenability
Book chapter

Treatment Needs and Amenability

Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Christopher King and Sarah Filone
Evaluating Juvenile Transfer and Disposition, pp 134-157
2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315661445-6

Abstract

Juvenile Offenders Forensic Mental Health Treatment Amenability Juvenile’s Offending Behavior Responsivity Factors Behavioral Health Symptoms Relevant Social Science Research Juvenile Court Forensic Mental Health Assessment Forensic Mental Health Professionals Making Treatment Recommendations Juvenile Justice Context Offending Behavior Autism Spectrum Disorders Juvenile Court Jurisdiction Disposition Decisions RNR Model Legal Decision Maker Juvenile’s Risk Juvenile’s Amenability Pennsylvania Courts Adult Criminal Justice System Juvenile Waiver Kent Decision Criminal Sophistication
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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