Multimedia Interventions for Juvenile Offenders

描述（由申请人提供）：青少年司法系统正经历着向平衡和恢复性司法模式的范式转变。该方法的一个中心目标是教给青年社会技能，作为对受害者、社区和自己进行赔偿的一种手段。在本应用中，我们建议开发四个交互式多媒体干预程序，以反映青少年的一套核心社会能力：愤怒管理、决策社会技能、受害者同情和自我管理计划。全国各地的少年司法系统都非常有兴趣在这些关键的培训领域为青少年提供高质量的干预措施，这些干预措施与平衡和恢复性司法模式相一致。所提议的多媒体课程是专门为吸引这些高危人群而设计的，通过一种高度可视化的方法，具有广泛的指导，示范技能，并提供现实而亲社会的环境。这些课程将以该领域领先专家撰写的当前课程为基础。在第一阶段，我们将开发完整的愤怒管理项目，在第二阶段，我们将开发剩下的三个项目。这两个阶段的评估研究将在加利福尼亚州的裁决青年中进行。

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.