Review article

SPECIFICITIES OF COUNSELING JUVENILE OFFENDERS

Gabrijela Ratkajec Gašević ; Faculty of Educational and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

This paper is focused on presenting and questioning the main aspects of counseling juvenile offenders. Due to the fact that this area
of counseling is rarely examined, there is a prevailing professional opinion of a need to define the approach of counseling juvenile offenders
and population in risk. This paper presents an overview of the specificities in the process of counseling juvenile offenders, lays
out the legal framework of special obligatory inclusion into individual or group psychosocial treatment within the youth counseling
service, also content of the intervention and gives an evaluation of the efficacy of such treatment programs. Through the overview of
the many approaches and the complexity of the process on its performance level, this paper tends to depict the current diversity in the
process of counseling youthful offenders. The framework used in the integration of present knowledge is the Horton method (1996)
in which the basic guidelines of the counseling process are laid out: process structures and themes, general principles of change,
process of change and mechanisms of change. Lastly, this paper deals with the necessity of creating quality standards in counseling
youthful offenders and proposes the areas of standards that might be used as a framework for a scientific debate.

Keywords

counseling juvenile offenders; special obligatory inclusion into individual or group psychosocial treatment within the youth counseling service; quality standards

Hrčak ID:

77212

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/77212

Publication date:

10.2.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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