title: Teaching self-care to delinquent adolescents.
abstract: Adolescent delinquency is an ever-increasing societal concern. Certain health problems are concentrated in the delinquent population. Families of delinquent youths often fail to reinforce self-care. Therefore health care providers need to focus on ways to teach delinquent adolescents to care for themselves. This article reviews delinquency and characteristics of juvenile delinquents and their families. A model is presented to guide health care providers to assess delinquent adolescents' abilities to care for themselves and to teach them strategies for self-care.
authors.affiliation: Boys Totem Town, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Ervin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017145:Models, Educational; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012307:Risk Factors; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*