Retention of Court-Referred Adolescents and Young Adults in the Therapeutic Community

摘要: AbstractClient retention for Abraxas, a therapeutic community (TC) whose clients are almost exclusively court referred, was compared with that nine other TCs primarily accept not referred by the courts. Retention found to be dramatically higher Abraxas than all comparison during first month of treatment. After treatment, discharge rates were lower those an aggregate seven but comparable two others. At end 10 months, more residents remained at eight programs. These differences between and particularly notable in Abraxas' population is juvenile whereas program populations adult. Analysis sample showed client significantly referrals, adults, males, did vary according ethnicity. The authors conc...