Deck 22: Adolescents in Juvenile Detention Brandon Burton

Question 1

Who are the most underserved and forgotten population in the United States?

A) Prisoners
B) Drug addicts
C) Sexual assault victims
D) Detained youth

Answer 1

Detained youth

Question 2

What system has been established to intervene and defend children's best interests?

A) Child welfare
B) Juvenile courts
C) Juvenile justice
D) Mental health

Answer 2

Juvenile justice

Question 3

What is the major problem in the juvenile system?

A) Money and funding
B) Disparities among detained minorities
C) Lack of consistent assessment
D) No mental health care and assessments

Answer 3

Disparities among detained minorities

Question 4

What portion of the detained juvenile population are girls?

A) One third
B) One half
C) One fourth
D) One fifth

Question 5

What percentage of African Americans make up the total youth population in the United States?

A) 25%
B) 16%
C) 17%
D) 27%

Question 6

What percentage of African Americans make up the total of those arrested?

A) 21%
B) 30%
C) 60%
D) 4%

Question 7

What percentage of those tried in the adult criminal systems?

A) 62%
B) 45%
C) 26%
D) 75%

Question 8

How many times more likely is it for an African American youth to receive an adult prison sentence than their Caucasian counterpart?

A) 20 times
B) 4 times
C) 6 times
D) 9 times

Question 9

What term is used to refer to detained youth and adolescents?

A) Juvenile detainees
B) Delinquent
C) Offenders
D) Juveniles

Question 10

What therapeutic approach engages community and family to embrace specific, individual circumstances of the offending youth?

A) Multisystemic therapy
B) Socio-behavioral therapy
C) Motivational interviewing
D) Cognitive behavioral therapy

Question 11

There are many gender-specific interventions employed for girls in detention facilities.

Question 12

Girls in juvenile detention facilities are safe because they are not transferred to adult prisons.

Question 13

Less than 1% of girls in correctional facilities say they were sexually active, and only 2% report sexual intercourse by age 13.

Question 14

Because they are assessed coming into detention, all juveniles have their mental health needs evaluated and treated.

Question 15

The National Commission on Correctional Health Care proposed screening at intake for mental health and physical health disorders.

Question 16

Evidence-based interventions for detained youths are readily available and free to all offenders.

Question 17

Boys and girls are detained in the same detention facility.

Question 18

One way to avoid transference and countertransference is to refrain from referring to detained youth as juvenile delinquents.

Question 19

The U.S. juvenile justice system is structured for the treatment of offending youth and not offending adults.

Question 20

The juvenile justice system could improve it if had better practices tailored for servicing the mental health and physical needs of the detained youth.

Question 21

What are three factors that directly influence the use of evidence-based interventions in the juvenile justice system?

Question 22

Once detained, what three services should be offered to detained youth?

Question 23

What are three recommendations offered for policy, government, and persons working within this field of practice?

Question 24

Explain why policy is important in this area of practice and describe three important macro policy concerns.

Question 25

Describe three aspects of multisystemic therapy and why this fits well with youth accessing it.