Multimedia Interventions for Juvenile Offenders

描述(由申请人提供)：少年司法系统正在经历一个向平衡和恢复性司法模式的典范转变。这一方法的一个中心目标是教授青年社交技能，以此作为向受害者、社区和他们自己提供赔偿的一种手段。在这项应用中，我们建议开发四个交互式多媒体干预项目，以反映青少年的一套核心社会能力：愤怒管理、决策社交技能、受害者同理心和自我管理规划。全国各地的少年司法系统都热衷于在这些关键的培训领域向青年提供高质量的干预措施，这些干预措施符合平衡和恢复性司法模式。拟议的多媒体计划专门旨在通过一种高度可视化、具有广泛指导、模拟技能并提供现实但亲社会的背景的方法来吸引高危人群。这些课程将基于该领域领先专家编写的当前课程。在第一阶段，我们将开发完整的愤怒管理程序，在第二阶段，我们将开发其余三个程序。这两个阶段的评估研究都将在加利福尼亚州接受裁决的青年中进行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The juvenile justice system is undergoing a paradigmatic shift toward a balanced and restorative justice model. A central goal of the approach is to teach youth social skills as a means of fulfilling reparations to their victims, their community, and to themselves. In this application we propose developing four interactive multimedia intervention programs that reflect a core set of social competencies for youth: anger management, decision-making social skills, victim empathy, and self-management planning. Juvenile justice systems throughout the nation are keenly interested in providing youth with interventions in these critical areas of training that are of high quality and that are consistent with the balanced and restorative justice model. The proposed multimedia programs are specifically intended to engage this at-risk population through an approach that is highly visual, has extensive guidance, models skills, and provides realistic yet prosocial contexts. The programs will be based on current curriculums written by leading experts in this field. In Phase I we will develop the complete anger management program, and in Phase II we will develop the remaining three programs. The evaluation studies in both phases will be conducted with adjudicated youth in the state of California.