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Chapter 23: Adolescents in Juvenile Detention (Brandon Burton)

Multiple Choice

1. Who are the most underserved and forgotten population in the United States?

a. Prisoners

b. Drug addicts

c. Sexual assault victims

*d. Detained youth

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

2. What system has been established to intervene and defend children’s best interests?

a. Child welfare

b. Juvenile courts

*c. Juvenile justice

d. Mental health

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

3. What is the major problem in the juvenile system?

a. Money and funding

*b. Disparities among detained minorities

c. Lack of consistent assessment

d. No mental health care and assessments

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

4. What portion of the detained juvenile population are girls?

*a. One third

b. One half

c. One fourth

d. One fifth

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

5. What percentage of African Americans make up the total youth population in the United States?

a. 25%

b. 16%

*c. 17%

d. 27%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Diversity Considerations
Question Type: MC

6. What percentage of African Americans make up the total of those arrested?

a. 21%

*b. 30%

c. 60%

d. 4%

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Diversity Considerations
Question Type: MC

7. What percentage of those tried in the adult criminal systems?

*a. 62%

b. 45%

c. 26%

d. 75%

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Diversity Considerations
Question Type: MC

8. How many times more likely is it for an African American youth to receive an adult prison sentence than their Caucasian counterpart?

a. 20 times

b. 4 times

c. 6 times

*d. 9 times

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Diversity Considerations
Question Type: MC

9. What term is used to refer to detained youth and adolescents?

a. Juvenile detainees

*b. Delinquent

c. Offenders

d. Juveniles

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference

Type: MC

10. What therapeutic approach engages community and family to embrace specific, individual circumstances of the offending youth?

*a. Multisystemic therapy

b. Socio-behavioral therapy

c. Motivational interviewing

d. Cognitive behavioral therapy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Interventions
Question Type: MC

True/False

1. There are many gender-specific interventions employed for girls in detention facilities.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF

2. Girls in juvenile detention facilities are safe because they are not transferred to adult prisons.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF

3. Less than 1% of girls in correctional facilities say they were sexually active, and only 2% report sexual intercourse by age 13.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF

4. Because they are assessed coming into detention, all juveniles have their mental health needs evaluated and treated.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Assessment
Question Type: TF

5. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care proposed screening at intake for mental health and physical health disorders.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Assessment

Question Type: TF

6. Evidence-based interventions for detained youths are readily available and free to all offenders.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Interventions
Question Type: TF

7. Boys and girls are detained in the same detention facility.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF

8. One way to avoid transference and countertransference is to refrain from referring to detained youth as juvenile delinquents.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference issues
Question Type: TF

9. The U.S. juvenile justice system is structured for the treatment of offending youth and not offending adults.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legal and Ethical Concerns
Question Type: TF

10. The juvenile justice system could improve it if had better practices tailored for servicing the mental health and physical needs of the detained youth.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mezzo: Organizations and Community Issues
Question Type: TF

Short Answer

Type: S

1. What are three factors that directly influence the use of evidence-based interventions in the juvenile justice system?

*a. Three factors that directly influence the use of evidence-based interventions in the juvenile justice system are that: 1) the interventions are not free, 2) there is no regular financial support, and 3) only 5% access these types of treatment interventions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Interventions
Question Type: SA

Type: S

2. Once detained, what three services should be offered to detained youth?

*a. Once detained, three services for detained youth that should be offered are: 1) quality evidence-based interventions, 2) access to treatment and quality services, and 3) a trained staff in cultural awareness and sensitivity towards maltreatment and neglect.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mezzo: Organizations and Community Services

Question Type: SA

Type: S

3. What are three recommendations offered for policy, government, and persons working within this field of practice?

*a. Three recommendations offered for policy, government, and persons working within this field of practice are: 1) the need for a universal approach that embraces quality and data-driven interventions, 2) realistic advocacy groups, and 3) fair allocation of funding.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Conclusion
Question Type: SA

Essay

Type: E

1. Explain why policy is important in this area of practice and describe three important macro policy concerns.

*a Policy is important because there are many interlocking factors and challenges that cannot transform until major policy advocacy and reform takes place. Three important macro policy concerns include: 1) gaining perspective about what adolescents are experiencing during their detention, 2) understanding that in setting up policies, adolescents are not adults, and 3) gaining perspective about what adolescents are experiencing on behavioral, cognitive, and societal levels.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Macro: Policy Analysis and Policy Advocacy
Question Type: ESS

Type: E

2. Describe three aspects of multisystemic therapy and why this fits well with youth accessing it.

*a. Multisystemic therapy has been flagged as the most evidence-based program used with juveniles in detention. This is because it: 1) engages community and family approaches to embrace specific individual circumstances of the offending youth, 2) builds pods of positive networks for the youth and the youth’s family, and 3) incorporates cognitive, behavioral, and therapeutic techniques while tending to the needs of the youth’s caregiver. Each of these aspects are important as they help to get a view of the detained youth that may not be accounted for in assessments, and it offers a path to positive behavior by providing positive networks.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intervention
Question Type: ESS