title: Comorbid Adolescent Difficulties: Social Work Prevention of Delinquency and Serious Youthful Offending.
abstract: A majority of adolescents who are formally involved with the juvenile courts and detained or incarcerated are dealing with past or present maltreatment victimization, learning disabilities, and/or mental health/substance abuse difficulties. Addressing these problems and traumas is an integral part of preventing delinquency and breaking a youthful offender's recidivist cycle, a pattern that often predicts adult offending and incarceration. Fortunately, there are effective programs across the social work profession that decrease or may even eliminate delinquent behaviors, both for low-level and more serious youthful offenders. Unfortunately, the use of these social work preventative programs is not consistent or extensive within the juvenile justice system.
authors.affiliation: a School of Social Work, Cleveland State University , Cleveland , Ohio , USA.
authors.forename: Christopher A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Mallett
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kirven
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D000066479:Criminal Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012947:Social Work
keywords: Delinquency; incarceration; learning disability; maltreatment; prevention; social work