Psychological Trauma and Juvenile Delinquency: New Directions in Research and Intervention
About this ebook
Part I of this volume is dedicated to research investigating the moderating and mediating variables that might explain how childhood trauma is transformed into adolescent misbehavior. Expert contributors analyse a wide range of both traumas and traumatic reactions, and diverse samples, including little-studied sexual minority youth. This volume is unique in the particular attention it pays to the relatively neglected female offender. Part II describes innovative evidence-based treatments designed specifically to intervene with trauma among delinquent youth, including milieu, individual, group, family and parenting interventions, as well as a novel youth theatre. The collection concludes with reflections on social policy related to the development of a trauma-informed juvenile justice system.
This book was originally published as two special issues of the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma.
About the author
Patricia K. Kerig, PhD is Professor and Director of Clinical Training at the University of Utah, USA. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of numerous works dedicated to the developmental psychopathology of childhood and adolescent trauma.
