Long-term effect of community-based treatment: evidence from the Adolescent Outcomes Project.

ABSTRACT: A growing literature on adolescent drug treatment interventions demonstrates the efficacy of "research therapies," but few rigorous studies examine the effectiveness of community-based treatments that are more commonly available to and utilized by youths and their families, the criminal justice system and other referring agencies. Even less is known about the long-term effects of these community-based treatments. This study evaluates the effects 72-102 months after intake to a widely disseminated community-based treatment model, residential therapeutic community treatment, using data from RAND's Adolescent Outcomes Project. Weighting is used to control for pre-existing differences between adolescent probationers disposed to Phoenix Academy and those assigned to one of six alternative group

SUBMITTER: Edelen MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2814882 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature