TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Juvenile justice risk factors and functional family therapy fidelity on felony recidivism
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Turner, Charles W.
A1  - Robbins, Michael S.
A1  - Winokur Early, Kristin
A1  - Blankenship, Julia L.
A1  - Weaver, Lisa R.
SP  - 697
EP  - 717
VL  - 46
IS  - 5
N2  - Families (n = 5,884) received Functional Family Therapy (FFT) provided as part of court-ordered probation services by 11 community sites throughout Florida. Sites provided home-based FFT to families with male (72%) or female (28%) delinquent youth. Juvenile justice courts referred clients to these services in an effort to redirect them away from incarceration. Clients were Hispanic (18%), Black (41%), and White non-Hispanic (36%), while therapists (female, 79%) were of Hispanic (28%), Black (20%), and White non-Hispanic (50%) ethnic/racial origins. Analyses of clients' pretreatment recidivism risk and therapist's caseload of risky clients demonstrated that both individual and treatment site case-mix of client criminal risk levels were associated with higher adjudicated felony recidivism. Furthermore, clinical process indicators suggest that therapists with larger rather than smaller caseloads of high-risk clients provided treatment with greater fidelity. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that experience in working with challenging clients is critical for achieving fidelity with these cases.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854818813184
ID  - ref1
ER  -