The Impact of an Outdoor Rehabilitation Program for Adjudicated Juveniles

Authors

  • I Roy Hunter

Keywords:

Delinquents, Rehabilitation, Outdoor

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine how the participants in an outdoor rehabilitation program changed during the program. In order to assure sensitivity to a broad range of dependent  variables, qualitative methods were selected. Specifically, the data collection and analysis procedures were structured using tHe constant comparative method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). The subjects were ten male adjudicated youths enrolled in an outdoor activity program. The findings were divided into three sections: (1) identification of existing rehabilitative stimuli, (2) description of subject behavior changes which occurred during the program, and (3) identification of the internal processes which had an impacton the subjects behaviors.

Published

1987-07-01

Issue

Section

Regular Papers