Treatment

Question 1

What doesn’t work

Answer 1

Scared straight, DARE, boot camps, corporal punishment, psychotherapy

don’t work bc: grouping high risk kids together, limited duration, adults lecturing

Question 2

Psychological Treatments

Answer 2

Behavioral Parent Training: rewards and mild punishments, works better if you do it w one parent in home

Multi-Systemic Therapy: home/school/peer group, therapist is in home, working with small group of clients, intensive CBT, 50% recidivism compared to 81% controls (psychotherapy)

Question 3

Medical Treatments

Answer 3

kids: antispsychotics, stimulants, mood stabilizers, anti-depressants 50% of these kids have ADHD comorbidity
adults: anticonvulsants, stimulants (in men)
castration: ppl who were voluntarily castrated vs those who wanted to at one point but never were, 11 years post release, rates of offending decreased a ton

Question 4

Nutrition

Answer 4

2 years, 5 days a week, kids get good nutrition/physical exercise, cog stim, reduced psychotic behavior and CD at age 17 and 23, the kids who did the best were the ones who had poor nutrition pre-treatment

Mauritius exp: kids got a fruit juice w omega 3 and ASB decreased

Question 5

Prenatal-postnatal health care

Answer 5

some moms get nurse visitations during pregnancy (education and prenatal care)

at age 15, pretty large reductions in arrests, alc, convictions, sexual partners