Stance and Techniques of Matched Nx (Neurotic, anxious), Na (Neurotic, acting-out), MP-CFC (Manipulator and Cultural Conformist), CFM (Immature Conformist) and 12 (Asocialized, passive) Workers - A Self-Description of the Treatment Methods Used as Well as Rejected by Five Groups of Low Caseload Paro

• NCJ Number: 75275
• Author(s): T B Palmer; G W Grenny
• Date Published: 1971
• Length: 43 pages
• Grant Number(s): MH-14734
• Sponsoring Agency: California Dept of the Youth Authority; US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Community Treatment Project Report Series - 1971, Number 2

Annotation

Views of 34 male parole agents regarding the methods of treatment and control used when working with youthful offenders in California's Community Treatment Project, a low caseload, community-based program, are presented.

Abstract

Agents' views were derived from a 200-item questionnaire which the agents completed during the spring of 1971. All respondents had either worked at the Community Treatment Project as a parole agent during the program's first 9 years or were working with the program at the time of the survey. Agents' views of methods of treatment and control are grouped according to the types of youthful offenders with which the agents were especially well-suited to work. The categories of youth were neurotic anxious; neurotic, acting-out; manipulator and cultural conformist; immature conformist; and asocialized, passive. Methods of treatment and control for the aforementioned types of youth are presented in terms of those strongly rejected as well as those endorsed. Methods are described according to primary objectives of treatment, subgoals and/or areas of major focus, treatment modalities, major strategies, other strategies and/or general lines of approach, parole agent roles, specific techniques and modes of interaction, and general and specific treatment issues. The report is intended primarily for practitioners, treatment supervisors, and corrections researchers. An overview of the Community Treatment project and a brief description of the I-Level Classification System are appended, and footnotes are provided.