Sammendrag
Children and young people who have perpetrated, or may
perpetrate, serious acts towards others have complex needs
for care and treatment, which can be difficult to actualize.
Many also need long-term, specialized treatment.
The purpose of this rapid review was to map research on the
effects of and experiences with interventions for children
and young people who commit serious acts against others.
We aimed to include studies published during the last decade,
and conducted in a Nordic country, the Netherlands, or
the UK. To identify relevant studies, we searched in international
databases, and we used both manual and machine
learning processes to screen studies against our inclusion
criteria.
We included 28 studies (presented in 33 publications). Most
studies were from the Netherlands or the UK. The great majority
of the studies addressed effect of an intervention, while
six presented experiences with an intervention. There were
nine types of interventions: Multisystemic therapy, institution-
specific programs, Aggression Replacement Therapy,
Non-Violent Resistance, MultifunC, other programs with a
cognitive or behavioral approach, interdisciplinary municipal
programs, Treatment Foster Care Oregon, and substance
abuse treatment. The outcomes were largely related to recidivism
and serious acts against others, mainly physical violence.
Many of the interventions had mixed results. The results
pointed to several treatment barriers, such as low implementation
quality and low program integrity.
It would be helpful to have a more thorough assessment of
the research on effects and experiences with interventions
for children and young people who commit serious acts
against others.
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