Original scientific paper
Risk factors assessment for children and youth in risk or with behaviour disorders within various intervention systems: social and ecological model
Nivex Koller Trbović
; Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Branko Nikolić
; Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Velimir Dugandžić
; Obiteljski centar Varaždin
Abstract
The purpose of this paper arises from the need to introduce experts/professionals to a uniformed, theoretically and scientifically founded and tested risk factors assessment for child and environment with the view to recommend interventions matching assessed needs. The paper presents a social and ecological model and the Questionnaire on risk factors by a Dutch author Mr. E.M. Scholte. The main goal of the paper was to asses the type and level of risk in children and youth with behaviour disorders or in risk to develop such behaviour that are involved in different intervention systems on the territory of the Republic of Croatia. The goal was also to determine the existence of differences in type and intensity of risk in children and youth involved in three different treatment types (community, day care and institutional treatment) and to define them.
A total sample of respondents consisted of 998 children and youths, 418 out of which were involved in institutional, 385 in day care and 195 in community treatment. The Questionnaire on risk factors (Schlote, 1998) was applied in the Republic of Croatia for the first time. It has proven to possess the quality of appropriateness and good metrical features. It’s advisable to use it for research, expert and educational purposes. Univariat analysis of variance and discrimination analysis have confirmed the results expected at the beginning of the research. The highest intensity of psychosocial risks can be found in children and youth in institutional treatment. Furthermore, this population of children differs from those in community and day care treatments in that they record much larger overall risk, especially in respect to family and asocial and delinquent behaviour.
Keywords
children and youth in risk; behaviour disorders; risk assessment; social and ecological model; intervention types
Hrčak ID:
52011
URI
Publication date:
15.3.2009.
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