A Follow-up Study of the Social and Vocational Adjustment of Former Student-patients at the Crippled Children\u27s Hospital and School, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

This study will attempt to gather information concerning the vocational and social adjustment of former student-patients of the Crippled Children’s Hospital and School, and will be directed towards the following goals: (1) Acquisition of information about the social, physical, and vocational status of former student-patients (2) Acquisition of information that will enable the total rehabilitation program of this center to be more adequately evaluated (3) Acquisition of information that will be of value to the center in evaluating admissions policies (4) Acquisition of information that will be useful in guidance of present and future student-patients (5) Acquisition of information that will clarify the role that the hospital-school has in meeting social needs (6) Acquisition of information that will be useful when compared with the results of future research. As a result, the purpose of this study was to secure data pertaining to the social and vocational adjustment of former student-patients of the Crippled Children’s Hospital and School, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Questionnaires were sent to those former student-patients who were 18 years of age or older at the time of the stud. There were 92 individuals included in the study. Questionnaires were returned containing data about 75 of these former student-patients, 73 of whom were living, and two of whom were deceased

The Effectiveness of Positive Peer Culture with Youth at Risk

Youth in conflict with adults often gravitate to friends who support high-risk behavior Various group treatment programs have sought to reverse this negative peer influence with two different strategies In peer pressure programs youth discipline one another to reinforce behavior norms In peer helping programs such as Positive Peer Culture PPC youth support one another by solving problems and building strengths While both approaches have been shown to improve short-term behavior peer-helping creates long-term change in prosocial values thinking and behavior This article reviews relevant research on the effectiveness of Positive Peer Culture and reports a study comparing recidivism of a residential PPC program in corrections with matched controls Differences were apparent after 12 months as PPC groups had significantly lower recidivism at each quarterly interval of the 24-month follow-up perio

Curriculum for Caring: Service Learning with Behaviorally Disordered Students

The difficulty that seriously emotionally disturbed persons experience in forming or maintaining effective interpersonal relationships is an almost universal component of federal and state definitions for this disability. Yet, in the face of this impediment in the social domain, our curricular approaches in behavior disorders have been almost exclusively individualistic. While we are able to document our successes in instructing to precisely measured objectives, we too often have fallen short of the goal of instilling prosocial, responsible, caring interpersonal behavior in troubled children and adolescents

From Coercive to Strength-Based Intervention: Responding to the Needs of Children in Pain

Executive Summary For two centuries Children and youth in conflict need positive guidance and support from concerned and competent individuals. This requires the creation of respectful relationships and group climates. Among the most crucial skills are strategies to prevent and de-escalate conflict. Yet research suggests that up to 90% of youth professionals do not consider themselves adequately prepared to handle serious crisis situation

Enduring wisdom : towards a comprehensive history of professional child and youth care

In this article we trace some of the important eras in our child and youth care history and highlight a number of the early and more recent contributors to our evolving field whose legacies deserve to be passed on. We can trace the roots of our work to at least the Byzantine era and the founding of the first group care homes and orphanages. The notion of consilience is used to link longstanding practice wisdom to the findings of modern science. The movement towards community-based, family-supportive child and youth care is likely to be dominant in the future, especially in “majority world” countries, and this is to be welcomed. At the same time, we suggest there are good reasons to value and find potential in good residential care. It is proposed that the 2,000 year history and unique role of residential care may offer a defining and unifying theme for the future of our discipline and profession

Trauma-Wise Youth: Responding to the Need Beneath the Pain

While there are many “trauma-informed” training programs for professionals, youth are the leading players on the trauma stage. In contemporary cultures of coercion, youth battle adults and become bullies or victims of peers. But Indigenous cultures of respect view children as contributors to the community, not problems to be controlled. This article describes how “trauma-wise youth” can respond to the needs of their peers in pain. Strategies drawn from the circle of courage resilience model and positive peer culture are used to engage youth in helping roles. These developmental relationships heal trauma and build resilience.</jats:p