A Two-Week Psychosocial Intervention Reduces Future Aggression and Incarceration in Clinically Aggressive Juvenile Offenders
Kendall, Ashley D. et al. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Published online October 2017.
Is it too late to treat conduct problems once young people end up in jail? Perhaps not. This study of juvenile offenders showed that a brief two week intervention targeting psychosocial factors implicated in risky behaviours (e.g. learning to manage hot thoughts that are associated with risk taking) can reduce rates of aggression a year afterwards.