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Integrating Narrative Therapy Within Rehabilitative Programming for Incarcerated Adolescents
Author(s) -
Ikonomopoulos James,
Smith Robert L.,
Schmidt Claudia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/jcad.12044
Subject(s) - narrative , intervention (counseling) , narrative therapy , mental health , session (web analytics) , physical therapy , psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , philosophy , linguistics , world wide web , computer science
The authors implemented a small‐series ( N = 8), single‐case research design to assess the effectiveness of a 10‐session narrative therapy intervention with adolescents enrolled in a juvenile boot camp facility. Analysis of participants’ scores on the Brief Symptom Inventory using the percentage of data points exceeding the median procedure (Ma, [Ma, H. H., 2006]) yielded treatment effects indicating that a narrative therapy intervention may be effective for reducing mental health symptoms. It is recommended that this body of research continue for other educational, work, and health settings.