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A brief historical overview of juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency -- Trends in American youth crime -- Scaling up from juvenile court records to offenses committed -- Reforming juvenile justice through comprehensive community planning -- Effectiveness of early crime prevention -- From risk identification to risk management : a comprehensive strategy for young children engaging in antisocial behavior -- The power of education in juvenile justice -- Effective programs to reduce school bullying -- Developmental pathways and life trajectories of delinquency -- Family influences on delinquency -- The late modern world of adolescence and sociological theories of delinquency -- Screening and assessment of mental health disorders and risk of re-offending among juvenile offenders -- Youth suicide in juvenile justice settings : prevention through empirically based assessment and crisis intervention -- Police responses to criminal and juvenile justice in the 21st century -- State-of-the-art juvenile detention : in search of a new normal -- Therapeutic jurisprudence and juvenile court -- Innovative justice for youth with mental health and substance use disorders : juvenile drug and mental health courts

This article, as a response to two papers, identifies five critical issues and themes related to the teaching of evidence-based practice (EBP) in social work higher education. These five themes are: defining EBP; modeling the complexity of EBP in teaching; examining social work curriculum; coordinating social work professional organizations; and shifting the culture in social work. In response to these themes, one key recommendation is that a Task Force on the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice be formed as a way to continue the momentum gained through the Symposium on the Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice.

Intro -- Contents -- Section I: Forensic Social Work:Theories and Trends -- Chapter 1 Forensic Social Work -- Chapter 2 Theories of Crime and Delinquency -- Chapter 3 Crime Trends -- Section II: Adult Criminal Justice -- Chapter 4 Preparing Social Workers forPractice in Correctional Institutions -- Chapter 5 Incarcerated Women: Pathways, Policies, and Practices That Lead to Criminal Justice Involvement -- Chapter 6 Crisis Intervention withVictims of Violence -- Chapter 7 Trauma-Informed Corrections -- Chapter 8 Reentry of Adult Offenders -- Chapter 9 Aging in Prison and Community Reintegration: Strategies for Social Work and Interprofessional Practice -- Section III: Juvenile Justice -- Chapter 10 Juvenile Justice Policy: Trendsand Issues -- Chapter 11 Assessment and Interventionin Child Sexual Abuse: A Forensic Social Work Perspective -- Chapter 12 Assessment of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Needsin Juvenile Justice -- Chapter 13 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents -- Chapter 14 Interpersonal Violence and Its Prevention among At-Risk and Antisocial Youth -- Chapter 15 Crossover Youth: Child Welfareand Juvenile Justice -- Section IV: Forensic Social Work in the 21st Century: Special Issues and Populations -- Chapter 16 Police Work: History and Trends within the Juvenile Justice System -- Chapter 17 Restorative Justice and the Justice System -- Chapter 18 New Ways of Delivering Justice: Problem-Solving Courts -- Chapter 19 Disproportionality, Disparity,and Discrimination: Race andEthnicity in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems -- Chapter 20 Culturally Competent Social Work Practice with LGBT Offenders -- Chapter 21 Social Work's Role with DomesticViolence: Women and the CriminalJustice System -- Chapter 22 Social Work, Race, and Neighborhood Revitalization.

Provides information on the forensic social work issues encountered on a daily basis, such as: prevention of prisoner sudden deaths; expert witness testimony in child welfare and women battering; treating dually diagnosed adolescents; jail mental health services for adults; drug courts and PTSD in inmates with substance abuse histories; and more

Praise for the Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice Series "A major stumbling block to the adoption of evidence-based practice in the real world of clinical practice has been the absence of clinician-friendly guides suitable for learning specific empirically supported treatments. Such guides need to be understandable, free of technical research jargon, infused with clinical expertise, and rich with real-life examples. Rubin and Springer have hit a home run with the Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice Series, which has all of these characteristics and more."-Edward J. Mullen

In this age of accountability, social work practitioners face greater demands to demonstrate the effectiveness of their interventions. A practical way to accomplish this is to use rapid assessment instruments (RAIs) to measure a client's level of functioning so that any subsequent change in functioning can be accurately detected over time. This first article in this two-part series outlined how to conceptualize and create an RAI, and how to plan and subsequently implement a design testing the newly created scale's psychometric properties, laying the groundwork for Part 2 of this series. The purpose of this article is to further develop the foundations that were introduced in Part 1 by using the authors' own works to illustrate how to develop a new scale and test its psychometric properties. Decision-making strategies and standards for how to interpret scale psychometrics are provided.

In this age of accountability, social work practitioners face greater demands to demonstrate the effectiveness of their interventions. A practical way to accomplish this is to use rapid assessment instruments (RAIs) to measure a client's level of functioning so that any subsequent change in functioning can be accurately detected over time. Although great strides have been made during the past three decades in the development of RAIs, there remains a paucity of reliable and valid scales when compared to the increasingly complex range of problems that practitioners confront in their day-to-day work with clients. This article, the first in a two-part series, outlines how to conceptualize and create a scale and how to plan and subsequently implement a design testing the newly created scale's reliability and validity. The second article in this series provides illustrations of these steps from the authors' own works, detailing decision making and strategies for analyzing psychometric data.

The Circumplex Model and its accompanying measure, the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES I, II, and III), are considered one of the state-of-the-art family assessment instruments in the field. A number of concerns, however, have been raised about the validity and reliability of the previous FACES measures and their ability to assess the Circumplex Model. Limitations of previous FACES measures have resulted in the development of the FACES IV measure. Tiesel and Olson recently completed the first reliability and validity study of the FACES IV measure. This article uses data from an adolescent population to further examine the psychometric properties of the new FACES IV measure. Reliability and validity analyses offer both corroborating and contradictory results when compared with the validity study conducted by Tiesel and Olson. Future directions for the development of FACES IV are discussed.