Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable patient population in the justice system. Mental health providers can get specific tools for improving evaluation and treatment of at-risk youth with this comprehensive and developmentally appropriate treatment program.
About the Participant’s Workbook
- Presents a written and illustrated format designed to help adolescents better understand and reflect on each of the 32 treatment sessions
- Supplies adolescent clients with a visual and written record of all treatment objectives, content information, modeling and role plays, discussion points, interactive exercises,
- Encourages journaling with reflective assignments and space to record ideas, insights, short and long term goals, and progress
- Geared toward a range of reading and conceptual abilities
- Uses comic strip illustrations and first-person stories to engage adolescents
- Guides participants through three discrete phases of resiliency and success:
- Challenge to Change – WHAT?
- Commitment to Change – HOW?
- Ownership of Change – NOW!