Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers

Background. Behavioral problems are a recurring issue in the child welfare system population. Normative residential centers do not have the characteristics to address the specific needs of these adolescents, so they are usually treated at therapeutic residential centers. In Catalonia (Spain), these...

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Autores: Sabaté-Tomas, Marta|||0000-0002-0351-6251, Sala Roca, Josefina|||0000-0001-9829-5131, Arnau-Sabatés, Laura|||0000-0003-3359-4071
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1111/cfs.12798
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Palavra-chave:Difficult behavior
Therapeutic social work
Adolescents
Residential care
Sex differences
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spelling Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centersSabaté-Tomas, Marta|||0000-0002-0351-6251Sala Roca, Josefina|||0000-0001-9829-5131Arnau-Sabatés, Laura|||0000-0003-3359-4071Difficult behaviorTherapeutic social workAdolescentsResidential careSex differencesBackground. Behavioral problems are a recurring issue in the child welfare system population. Normative residential centers do not have the characteristics to address the specific needs of these adolescents, so they are usually treated at therapeutic residential centers. In Catalonia (Spain), these cases are treated in Intensive Educational Residential Centers (CREI), a variant of Therapeutic Residential Care (TRC) facilities. Objective. This exploratory study seeks to understand the treatment progress of adolescents with severe behavioral problems who were placed in the CREIs, a variant of TRC facilities. Participants. Data from 206 cases, the totality of population under treatment in the CREIs, was collected using a questionnaire administered to the treating team. Method. A cross-sectional design was used, applying quantitative methods to analyze the incidence and interrelation of a series of variables related to the progress of adolescents in the CREIs. Results. Significant differences among profiles by sex, place of origin, criminal offences, substance abuse, and mental health disorders were found. Furthermore, adolescents who performed a positive treatment progress according to the professional staff, arrived at the CREI at an earlier age, and had longer stays, than the group with an unremarkable progress. Logistic regression indicated that duration of stay in the center and runaways predict the adolescents' treatment progress. Conclusions. This treatment is working well with the milder cases; however, it does not tend to be successful for adolescents with greater difficulties. It is recommended that interventions focus on factors that engage the adolescents in their own rehabilitation process, include substance abuse programs and consider the gender perspective. 22020-01-0120202020-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/307346https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1111/cfs.12798reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3073462026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers
title Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers
spellingShingle Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers
Sabaté-Tomas, Marta|||0000-0002-0351-6251
Difficult behavior
Therapeutic social work
Adolescents
Residential care
Sex differences
title_short Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers
title_full Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers
title_fullStr Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers
title_full_unstemmed Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers
title_sort Treatment progress of foster care adolescents with severe behavioral problems : Factors conditioning their performance in the residential treatment centers
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sabaté-Tomas, Marta|||0000-0002-0351-6251
Sala Roca, Josefina|||0000-0001-9829-5131
Arnau-Sabatés, Laura|||0000-0003-3359-4071
author Sabaté-Tomas, Marta|||0000-0002-0351-6251
author_facet Sabaté-Tomas, Marta|||0000-0002-0351-6251
Sala Roca, Josefina|||0000-0001-9829-5131
Arnau-Sabatés, Laura|||0000-0003-3359-4071
author_role author
author2 Sala Roca, Josefina|||0000-0001-9829-5131
Arnau-Sabatés, Laura|||0000-0003-3359-4071
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Difficult behavior
Therapeutic social work
Adolescents
Residential care
Sex differences
topic Difficult behavior
Therapeutic social work
Adolescents
Residential care
Sex differences
description Background. Behavioral problems are a recurring issue in the child welfare system population. Normative residential centers do not have the characteristics to address the specific needs of these adolescents, so they are usually treated at therapeutic residential centers. In Catalonia (Spain), these cases are treated in Intensive Educational Residential Centers (CREI), a variant of Therapeutic Residential Care (TRC) facilities. Objective. This exploratory study seeks to understand the treatment progress of adolescents with severe behavioral problems who were placed in the CREIs, a variant of TRC facilities. Participants. Data from 206 cases, the totality of population under treatment in the CREIs, was collected using a questionnaire administered to the treating team. Method. A cross-sectional design was used, applying quantitative methods to analyze the incidence and interrelation of a series of variables related to the progress of adolescents in the CREIs. Results. Significant differences among profiles by sex, place of origin, criminal offences, substance abuse, and mental health disorders were found. Furthermore, adolescents who performed a positive treatment progress according to the professional staff, arrived at the CREI at an earlier age, and had longer stays, than the group with an unremarkable progress. Logistic regression indicated that duration of stay in the center and runaways predict the adolescents' treatment progress. Conclusions. This treatment is working well with the milder cases; however, it does not tend to be successful for adolescents with greater difficulties. It is recommended that interventions focus on factors that engage the adolescents in their own rehabilitation process, include substance abuse programs and consider the gender perspective.
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