Residential Treatment Centers

Many residential facilities provide family therapy in an effort to remediate parent-child interactions that may be causative in producing delinquency. According to Parsons and Alexander (1973), family therapy can be successfully used to alter the destructive communication patterns that are often typical of delinquents' families. Indeed, in their study of a family therapy program that also used behavior approaches such as modeling, the authors found that by the end of therapy, family interaction patterns were significantly modified in the direction of communication patterns more characteristic of normal families.

Training schools are an alternative treatment intervention for delinquency. According to Chandler (1973), the effectiveness of training was demonstrated in his study of chronically delinquent boys. In the study, training consisted of writing, acting and videotaping brief lifelike skits in order to educate delinquents in role-taking skills. All boys received training in three-hour

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