An Expert on Problem Behaviors of Adolescents Tells a Gathering

question 10

Multiple Choice

An expert on problem behaviors of adolescents tells a gathering of professionals the following, "The primary goal of treating these young people should be diversion." If the group then goes out and follows this suggestion, what will they try to accomplish?

• A) They will develop more after-hour programs for young people.
• B) They will develop more family-based treatment programs because these adolescents are the products of their environments.
• C) They will do whatever they can to keep youngsters out of a juvenile justice system that seems to create more delinquency.
• D) The seriousness of the crimes that they commit must be impressed upon these young people in order that they accept responsibility and have any chance of living a normal adult life.

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