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JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN’S CENTER SYMPOSIUM


Treating Multi-Problem Youth: Expert Perspectives


Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Boston Juvenile Court


Date: October 18, 2006
Location: Harvard Conference Center Main Auditorium

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Longwood Medical Area, Boston
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Co-Sponsored by:

Commissioner Harry Spence, Department of Social Services
Commissioner Elizabeth Childs, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Commissioner Jane Tewksbury, Department of Youth Services

Featured Speakers:

Scott Henggeler, Ph.D.

Director, Family Services Research Center
Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
Creator of Multisystemic Therapy

Dr. Scott Henggeler’s Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intervention approach used most often and most successfully with youths who have been arrested or are at-risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system. MST involves working with the youth and multiple social systems in the youth’s world (for example, family members, school personnel, peer group members, probation officer) to create changes in the youth’s social system that will lead to improved behavior and end the youth’s involvement in criminal behavior. Research has shown MST to be a highly effective treatment for antisocial youth, particularly those with histories of criminal behavior.

 

Patricia Chamberlain, Ph.D.

Clinical Director and Senior Research Scientist, Oregon Social Learning Center
Creator of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care

Dr. Patti Chamberlain’s Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) is an intervention approach used most often and most successfully with youths who are in foster care and who have a history of antisocial or delinquent behavior. MTFC involves working with the foster parents and the youth, emphasizing development of parenting skills including good behavior management and close monitoring, to ensure that the foster care placement will be successful and that the youths will not continue to be involved in antisocial or delinquent behavior. Research has shown MTFC to be a highly effective treatment for antisocial and delinquent youths who are living in foster care placements.

 

Alan Kazdin, Ph.D.

Director, Yale Parenting Center & Child Conduct Clinic
Professor, Yale University
Creator of Problem Solving Skills Training and Parent Management Training

Dr. Alan Kazdin’s Problem Solving Skills Training (PSST) is an intervention approach used most often and most successfully with children aged 2-13 who are displaying aggressive and antisocial behavior. PSST involves individual sessions with children in which the children learn interpersonal problem-solving skills they can use to deal with interpersonal conflict in non-aggressive, non-violent ways that defuse the conflict. Through an array of exercises and role plays, children learn to stop and think before they act, to identify the problem they are facing, to generate alternative plans for how to respond, and to select the plan that will solve the problem and reduce the conflict. Research has shown PSST to be a highly effective treatment for aggressive and antisocial children from preschool through early adolescence.

 

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