Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding

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dc.contributor.advisorHeyns, I de Ven_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHoar, Robynen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-20T15:41:36Z
dc.date.available2015-12-20T15:41:36Z
dc.date.issued1988en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 92-98.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractUsing a systems theoretical orientation the objective of this study was to implement a strategic approach for psychotherapeutic intervention with six male institutionalized white adolescents at a local custodial school. It was hypothesized that a strategic approach would control absconding for the duration of the investigation. Surveys of the literature were undertaken to provide the background to psychotherapeutic intervention with adolescents in custodial institutions, strategic psychotherapy and absconding. Absconding was selected as the condition for evaluating the interventions because it was an unambiguous indicator of school-based recidivism, viz., the adolescent was either on the property or he was not. The study was structured as a design-and-demonstrate investigation. Audiotape recordings were made during the sessions. Transcriptions of characteristic procedures and sequences of the strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention were presented, inter alia, paradoxes, reframing, metaphors, rituals, the declaration of therapeutic impotence. Evaluation of the interventions was based on follow-up interviews with the subjects and a qualitative analysis of risk of absconding aver the course of the intervention process. At the end of the investigation there was some evidence which suggested that five out of the six subjects were not as committed to absconding as they had claimed to be at the beginning of the study. The design of the study did not allow for the conclusion that the strategic approach for controlling absconding was of greater merit than any other form of intervention or no intervention at all. It was noted, however, that twelve of the eighteen potential subjects for the study indicated that they would abscond as soon as the opportunity arose. Therefore it was recommended that the issue of absconding be given priority in therapy on the admission of each new pupil. Given a strategic approach to addressing the issue of absconding in therapy, attention was drawn to a major aim of this type of intervention, viz., to generate a sense of personal autonomy. Hence a further recommendation was that once a pupil had made a commitment not to abscond, his sense of autonomy would need to be supported by an expeditious transfer to one of the more open hostels.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHoar, R. (1988). <i>Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15888en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHoar, Robyn. <i>"Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15888en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHoar, R. 1988. Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Hoar, Robyn AB - Using a systems theoretical orientation the objective of this study was to implement a strategic approach for psychotherapeutic intervention with six male institutionalized white adolescents at a local custodial school. It was hypothesized that a strategic approach would control absconding for the duration of the investigation. Surveys of the literature were undertaken to provide the background to psychotherapeutic intervention with adolescents in custodial institutions, strategic psychotherapy and absconding. Absconding was selected as the condition for evaluating the interventions because it was an unambiguous indicator of school-based recidivism, viz., the adolescent was either on the property or he was not. The study was structured as a design-and-demonstrate investigation. Audiotape recordings were made during the sessions. Transcriptions of characteristic procedures and sequences of the strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention were presented, inter alia, paradoxes, reframing, metaphors, rituals, the declaration of therapeutic impotence. Evaluation of the interventions was based on follow-up interviews with the subjects and a qualitative analysis of risk of absconding aver the course of the intervention process. At the end of the investigation there was some evidence which suggested that five out of the six subjects were not as committed to absconding as they had claimed to be at the beginning of the study. The design of the study did not allow for the conclusion that the strategic approach for controlling absconding was of greater merit than any other form of intervention or no intervention at all. It was noted, however, that twelve of the eighteen potential subjects for the study indicated that they would abscond as soon as the opportunity arose. Therefore it was recommended that the issue of absconding be given priority in therapy on the admission of each new pupil. Given a strategic approach to addressing the issue of absconding in therapy, attention was drawn to a major aim of this type of intervention, viz., to generate a sense of personal autonomy. Hence a further recommendation was that once a pupil had made a commitment not to abscond, his sense of autonomy would need to be supported by an expeditious transfer to one of the more open hostels. DA - 1988 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1988 T1 - Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding TI - Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15888 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/15888
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHoar R. Strategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control absconding. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 1988 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15888en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Educationen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherRehabilitation of juvenile delinquents - South Africa - Psychological aspectsen_ZA
dc.subject.otherEducational Psychologyen_ZA
dc.titleStrategic approach to psychotherapeutic intervention with male institutionalized white adolescents to control abscondingen_ZA
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