Involvement with Juvenile Justice System as a Motivational Factor for Treatment for Adolescents with Substance Abuse Disorder: Their Parents’ Views

Georgia Efstathiadou

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Involvement with Juvenile Justice System as a Motivational Factor for Treatment for Adolescents with Substance Abuse Disorder: Their Parents’ Views

Georgia Efstathiadou

Published in American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Volume 9, Issue 2)

Received: 24 March 2021 Accepted: 15 April 2021 Published: 14 May 2021

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Abstract

The paper at hand aims at exploring whether engagement with the penal judicial system can affect drug using adolescents’ decision to seek treatment, by studying the relative views and beliefs of their parents. The main research questions are concerned with the parents’ beliefs about the effect of the judicial institutions (e.g. police, prosecutors, judges, juvenile probation officers) and the enforcement of reformative – treatment measures on motivating youths. A Likert-based scale was used as the main data collection tool, as it was considered most suitable with respect to the study’s goals, research questions and theoretical grounding. Data were descriptively analysed using the SPSS software, looking into the frequency distributions and the correlation matrices of the variables of interest. Results show that all parents consider the effect of the judicial institutions’ involvement on the motivation of the juvenile addicted offenders as very significant. According to the participants’ responses, intense policing, the involvement of the juvenile prosecutors and probation officers, the application of a personalized intervention model, the enforcement of reformative measures and the referral - by the judicial authorities - to a rehabilitation program, can all have a decisive effect on an adolescent’s decision to discontinue drug use.

Published in	American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Volume 9, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajpn.20210902.15
Page(s)	50-58
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Adolescent, Substance Abuse Disorder, Juvenile Justice System

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