¶ … juvenile justice interventions to parental intervention and readiness for change. The study evaluates Parenting with Love Limits (PLL) group therapy program to determine its effect on adolescent behavior and its effect on parent factors as well as parent adolescent relationship and readiness for change.
The methods and procedures used in conducting this study are descriptive and experimental. It also involves statistical analysis of data. It also reviews previous studies that relates to it. It is descriptive in the sense that it gives a reader an insight into what terminologies like recidivism, re-adjudication, and community based intervention mean with regard to reducing adolescent oppositional and conduct disorders. The design was experimental in the sense that it used The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) to measure behavioral problems and social competencies of children as reported by their parents. The parents are reported to have completed the CBCL by themselves. The CBCL integrates 118 items related to behavior problems that are witnessed among the adolescents aged between 12-17 years old. It also involved the use of Parent and Adolescent Readiness Scales (PRS) that contains 32 Likert questions. The questions have a single factor, one-dimensional scale which is a continuous ratio level measurement (Warr, 2005). The study design also involves the use of statistical analysis especially in PRS measurements.
Operational definition
In order to determine the effects of Parenting with Love Limits (PLL) group therapy program on parent-adolescent relationship,...
This is evident in Table 2 where treatment and control conditions of participants are compared. The research study's findings are also conclusive and descriptive in nature. The findings are used to recommend final course of action with regard to norming the behaviors of the delinquent adolescents. The participants in this research study are also randomly chosen as opposed to qualitative research where respondents are selected to fill a given quota.
Methods
The study is conducted within Georgia's juvenile court system set up. It targets children with oppositional disorders or those who have been diagnosed with conduct disorder. Participants and their parents totaling 38 in number were randomly assigned into either the PLL parenting group or a control group. Nineteen…
