Identifying, initiating, and sustaining change are central tasks in behavioral healthcare.
External controlling pressures, such as coercion, that compel a person to change can …

Introduction There is paucity of research on treatment-related coercion in youth: most
research focuses on adult populations and legally mandated treatment. This study aims to …

Prior research on legally coerced treatment for substance abuse tends to find no difference
between coerced and non-coerced clients with respect to treatment retention and treatment …

Youths in compulsory residential care show a high prevalence of various mental health
problems but often lack motivation to engage in therapeutic treatment. Although the self …

Substance use and abuse among youth are a significant public health concern.
Adolescence represents a critical period for the potential initiation of substance use. Onset of …

In this article, we outline an emerging role for applied behavior analysis in juvenile justice by
summarizing recent publications from our lab and discussing our procedures through the …

A key concept in the continuum-of-care model is matching the restrictiveness of treatment to
the level of youth behavior problems. Restrictiveness refers to the degree that treatment and …

The growing body of research in the neurosciences supports the importance of reducing
overt and covert manifestations of coercion in residential treatment programs. This paper …

Research suggests that client engagement in treatment is related to positive treatment
outcomes. Although a large body of literature exists on clients' treatment engagement …

As the US government considers measures to increase mandated outpatient treatment,
there still is time to learn an important lesson from an article appearing in this issue …