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Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding
Bibliography: pages 92-98.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/15888 Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding Hoar, Robyn Heyns, I de V Rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents - South Africa - Psychological aspects Educational Psychology Bibliography: pages 92-98. Using a systems theoretical orientation the objective of this study was to implement a strategic approach for psychotherapeutic intervention with six male institutionalized white adolescents at a local custodial school. It was hypothesized that a strategic approach would control absconding for the duration of the investigation. Surveys of the literature were undertaken to provide the background to psychotherapeutic intervention with adolescents in custodial institutions, strategic psychotherapy and absconding. Absconding was selected as the condition for evaluating the interventions because it was an unambiguous indicator of school-based recidivism, viz., the adolescent was either on the property or he was not. The study was structured as a design-and-demonstrate investigation. Audiotape recordings were made during the sessions. Transcriptions of characteristic procedures and sequences of the strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention were presented, inter alia, paradoxes, reframing, metaphors, rituals, the declaration of therapeutic impotence. Evaluation of the interventions was based on follow-up interviews with the subjects and a qualitative analysis of risk of absconding aver the course of the intervention process. At the end of the investigation there was some evidence which suggested that five out of the six subjects were not as committed to absconding as they had claimed to be at the beginning of the study. The design of the study did not allow for the conclusion that the strategic approach for controlling absconding was of greater merit than any other form of intervention or no intervention at all. It was noted, however, that twelve of the eighteen potential subjects for the study indicated that they would abscond as soon as the opportunity arose. Therefore it was recommended that the issue of absconding be given priority in therapy on the admission of each new pupil. Given a strategic approach to addressing the issue of absconding in therapy, attention was drawn to a major aim of this type of intervention, viz., to generate a sense of personal autonomy. Hence a further recommendation was that once a pupil had made a commitment not to abscond, his sense of autonomy would need to be supported by an expeditious transfer to one of the more open hostels. 2015-12-20T15:41:36Z 2015-12-20T15:41:36Z 1988 Master Thesis Masters MEd http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15888 eng application/pdf School of Education Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding |
| title_full | Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding |
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| title_short | Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding |
| title_sort | strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding |
| topic | Rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents - South Africa - Psychological aspects Educational Psychology |
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