Treatment Foster Care Oregon for seriously delinquent adolescents a systematic review and assessment including economic and ethical aspects

Approximately 2,000 adolescents are annually placed in residential care in Sweden due to their behavior problems. Those adolescents also have substantially increased risks of mental and physiological problems at time of care entry, while in care and in adulthood. An alternative to residential care i...

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Corporate Author: Statens beredning för medicinsk och social utvärdering (Sweden)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stockholm Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services 2018, April 2018
Series:SBU assessments
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Approximately 2,000 adolescents are annually placed in residential care in Sweden due to their behavior problems. Those adolescents also have substantially increased risks of mental and physiological problems at time of care entry, while in care and in adulthood. An alternative to residential care is Treatment Foster Care Oregon, TFCO (previously called Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care). TFCO has been available in Sweden since the beginning of the 2000s. This report reviews and synthesizes the evidence regarding TFCO for seriously delinquent adolescents
Physical Description:1 PDF file (2 pages)