When Prohibition Works: Alternatives to Violence in the Odyssey House Youth Program and in the Family.

Autor/inn/en	King, David F.; Straus, Murray A.
Titel	When Prohibition Works: Alternatives to Violence in the Odyssey House Youth Program and in the Family.
Quelle	(1981), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Attitudes; Behavior Standards; Drug Addiction; Drug Rehabilitation; Milieu Therapy; Psychological Characteristics; Role Models; Self Esteem; Sensitivity Training; Social Behavior; Violence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Drug dependence; Drug consomption; Drogenabhängigkeit; Drogentherapie; Milieutherapie; Identifikationsfigur; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Sensitivitätstraining; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Gewalt
Abstract	Physical violence, a factor often associated with drug addiction, must be reduced or eliminated in order for drug dependent individuals to reenter society. To examine the extent to which individual violence associated with drug addiction was controllable by the Odyssey House drug addiction rehabilitation program, the violence potential of 47 residents was investigated through direct observation of the subjects' behaviors for a 6-month period. Results revealed that overt violence was well controlled within the facility, due in part to: (1) strong and unambiguous norms and sanctions; (2) opportunities to acquire self-esteem; (3) non-violent role models; (4) a procedure that enabled wrongs to be righted and conflicts to be resolved; and (5) a social learning process to extinguish violent behavior. The findings suggest that the Odyssey House program has been remarkably successful. (RC)
Anmerkungen	Family Violence Research Program, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 (.65 per copy).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC