“This book arrives at just the right time—when rehabilitation is enjoying a revival because of  contemporary research on the efficacy of interventions that deal with youths’ thinking errors and that provide cognitive restructuring as well as identifying skill deficits and teaching social skills. It introduces the reader to specific interventions, such as Aggression Replacement Training and Thinking for a Change, that have operated in many successful juvenile correctional programs throughout the country.  This book is essential for treatment programs that are serous about changing delinquent youths’ behavior.”
—Ned Loughran, Executive Director, The Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators

“There is no need for programs to struggle for success.  The answers and evidence to succeed are found here.”
—Peter Kinziger, Executive Director, American Association of Community Justice Professionals

Bringing together the work of leading practitioners and theorists, this hands-on guide is designed to help you find the best programs targeted to the youth populations you serve, and provides hands-on detail on how model programs work and how to apply them.

• Basic methods and techniques used in cognitive behavioral interventions
• Detailed guidance on implementing outcome-oriented, evidence-based programs for both juvenile justice populations and at-risk youth in the community
• Help in choosing a program that will work well with the specific youth populations you serve
• How to solve program design and implementation challenges
• Practical approaches for addressing common problems in group sessions with juvenile offenders
• Dealing with system issues—from budgets to quality control
• User-friendly research and evaluation tools for practitioners, and a model for assessing program efficacy

Barry Glick, Ph.D., NCC, ACS, is a consultant to juvenile and adult correctional systems across the nation and concurrently serves as senior editor of Managing Delinquency Programs that Work. Trained as a Counseling Psychologist, Dr. Glick has devoted his professional career to the development of policies, programs, and services for adolescents. His specialization is in juvenile delinquency, aggression and violence, youth gangs, and the emotionally disturbed adolescent. He has worked both for state government and in private childcare agencies, holding positions as child care worker, psychologist, administrator, manager, and agency executive. He was lead author of No Time to Play: Youthful Offenders in Adult Systems, and its sequel implementation manual, Recess Is Over: A Handbook for Managing Youthful Offenders in Adult Systems. He co-developed and is co-author of Aggression Replacement Training: A Comprehensive Intervention for Aggressive Adolescents; and The Pro-Social Gang. Dr. Glick is a member emeritus of the National Gangs Advisory Committee, and is a Nationally Certified Counselor.

Related Publications:The Science, Treatment, and Prevention of Antisocial Behaviors; Juvenile Justice Update; Emotional & Behaviorial Disorders in Youth; Juvenile Justice: Policies Practices, and Programs; Effective Program Practices for At-Risk Youth