Cognitive Behavioral Therapy In Controlling Juvenile Delinquency

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy In Controlling Juvenile Delinquency

Abstract

Juvenile delinquency is a negative behavior that needs to be adequately assessed in order to focus on improving a child’s development. Engagement of juvenile requires a more structured system which is developed in creating a  reliable system that helps in promoting change in individual behavior. The changes that need to be undertaken focus on juvenile psychological and behavioral wellbeing. Cognitive-behavioral therapy presents a structured intervention that focuses on the gradual implementation of essential concepts that help in improving the level of individual development. Maintaining a robust approach in implementing change strategies focusses on improving behavioral traits that help develop a unified system which increases the level of cognitive performance. Juvenile offending is an increasing problem within society. Juvenile offending is based on different factors, such as the level of parenting as well a child exposure. Juvenile delinquency involves different categories based on offenses that are committed, young individuals. Therefore practical assessment of child development offers a structured emphasis on how adapting behavioral interventions can improve juvenile development.

Juveniles have been engaging in crimes, mainly due to the current economic situation as well as the influence of their social interaction. There are less severe crimes and serious crimes that are highly punishable in the juvenile justice system. Less severe crimes include breaking neighbors’ windowpane or destroying their garden  (Manzoni & Schwarzenegger, 2019). Serious crimes include drug-related offenses, robbery with violence, rape, and murder. How children are engaged within a given environment defines a more significant role in improving different strategies that can be adopted in controlling the increasing rate of juvenile delinquency. Juvenile involvement in crime has been a primary public concern across all states. The development of negative behavioral traits is a continuous process that requires the integration of better strategies to control delinquent behavior. The number of juveniles engaged in violent crimes in recent years has increased, which provides an emphasis on the need to integrate better cognitive strategies that focus on behavioral development.

Literature review

Milburn (2011) identifies that improving the behavior of adolescents requires a significant learning process, which helps in enhancing behavior development. Juvenile delinquent behavior is primarily influenced by the surrounding environment and the social interactions that the children have. Unconditional self-acceptance presents a well-defined context which helps in creating a highly structured understanding of individual cognitive wellbeing. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers a more effective platform that children can learn positive behavior and ensure that there is a higher operational level, which helps in implementing better measures that can help control negative behavior and promote successful development.

The level of child development has a better role in defining their future behavior, which is integral in maintaining a highly engaged environment for an improved level of development (Manzoni & Schwarzenegger, 2019. When a child has a poor background, it creates a favorable environment where they are involved in crime throughout their childhood as well as adulthood. The number of young offenders who are being arrested in recent years has increased significantly. There has been a focus on zero-tolerance on crime as a significant factor contributing to higher arrests being made.

According to Steketee et al. (2013), many children tend to reach adulthood without any involvement in severe delinquent behavior even when faced with diverse challenges such as low-income background and lack of proper formal education. Risk factors are essential in helping identify the level of vulnerability among children but cannot assist in determining which child is likely to be a severe or chronic offender. Most of these traits are innate, which makes them difficult to control. Past researchers have identified that the majority of adult criminal offenders were juvenile delinquents. Managing such occurrence requires a strong adoption of better measures that can help maintain a higher understanding of better tests that can help create a highly diversified emphasis on improved outcomes. Therefore identifying the existing risk factors will have a positive influence on understanding basic strategies that can be considered in improving individual development without delinquent behavior.

According to Grady (2017), attachment theory provides an emphasis on specific elements that improve attachment in parenting. How a child has engaged plays a significant role in defining future behavior and general development. Different factors are developed with a specific understanding of the development level. The findings from the study showed that infant-parent attachment presents a transparent approach that helps define a more substantial influence on child development. Having a poor understanding of child needs means that it is difficult to control a child involved in a crime. The current parenting system has been unable to control child development with a more significant percentage of parenting done by teachers in an environment where there are many children.

Agnew and Brezina (2012) highlight that juvenile delinquent behavior requires a strong personal engagement where children can understand the existing difference between doing what is right and wrong. Inability to differentiate what is good or wrong makes it difficult to control child development behavior leading to offending. The basis of behavioral development is during infancy under the care of the parent. Building a strong emotional development with the child help in adopting better parenting strategies that can help promote better behavioral traits. The relationships that are formed based on social interactions play a major role in defining child wellbeing and behavioral growth.

Young et al. (2017) asserted that distinguishing childhood mischief from wrongful acts is vital in defining the age of criminal misconduct. The article highlights that the abilities of children are limited, which means that there is a greater understanding of the fact that children are bound to make mistakes due to their inability to distinguish their actions. Focusing on cognitive standards in evaluating children’s knowledge is essential. It provides a greater emphasis on crucial changes that help in creating a highly successful understanding of critical moves that assist in defining improved outcomes. The policy changes that have been put in place that regulate the juvenile system provide a crucial understanding of the ability of children to understand when they are committing crimes. Age is a critical factor in defining a strong commitment under which it would be easier to maintain better outcomes.

The rehabilitation interventions that are implemented within the juvenile system focus on helping create a more reliable system that defines improved outcomes. A successful development of these measures helps in creating a highly structured system for change. Steele et al. (2013) identified that behavioral approaches that are incorporated within the juvenile system play a significant role in creating a highly structured system, which is vital in creating a more reliable context for child development. Every juvenile offender requires an integration of a reliable system which can help in improving the level of development. Maintaining a positive operational framework presents a highly engaged environment where the needs of children can be adequately addressed.

The laws have been developed with less focus on integrating alternative solutions such as community-based, which provide a critical emphasis on the current state of affairs. The minimum mandatory sentences were aimed at reducing the rate of repeat offenders. These laws suggested limits under which individuals were incarcerated before they were eligible for parole (Newsome et al., 2016). These laws have been actively practiced in the United States, which provide a critical understanding of essential processes, which produce a crucial agreement on crucial changes within the system, highlighting key differences that have been included within the criminal justice system. These laws have presented a highly structured system that focuses on the development of better principles among individuals.

According to Garbarino and Plantz (2017), a sufficient understanding of why young individuals engage in crime is another important consideration that is adequately emphasized upon under the common knowledge of the strain theory. Being able to understand the risk factors, which contribute to younger individuals engaging in crime, provide a better environment where they can be easily employed by focusing on these factors. Learning about the social environment at large creates an essential climate where it is much accessible to implemented better policies within these residential treatment programs that effectively engage these young offenders.

Rehabilitation is a crucial approach within the juvenile justice system that focuses on the changes in individual behavior while also taking into focus the individual’s needs and the underlying factors that lead to committing a crime (Hirschi, 2017).  Understanding the background provides a critical focus on essential processes that give a greater emphasis on essential changes within the system. A financially unstable individual would consider crime as an option in which they can become even with others who are stable within society. Not everyone is privileged within the organization.

Hawkins and Weis (2017), illustrate that the adoption of essential changes within the system provides a critical evaluation of crucial elements which give a greater emphasis on fundamental approaches that define better procedures. Therefore there is a need to ensure that the approach that is adopted produces better results based on the changes within the society. The two strategies that are engaged in this case include incarceration or rehabilitation. The viability of the approach that is adopted in this case provides a strategic focus where it is possible to understand the best possible intervention for different individuals. The adoption of both rehabilitative and punitive measures should be engaged under which it possible to integrate essential elements that define a successful change process in individual behavioural wellbeing.

The juveniles are at a dangerous stage in their lives where there is a need to integrate essential concepts that provide a critical evaluation of important measures that define better development. Therefore the intervention combined should focus on many factors, including the type of offender and the motivation behind a given action. The integration of strict laws has been aimed to discourage offenders from offending. There is a need to integrate critical processes that provide a strict focus on essential elements that maintain a strong commitment to transforming society.

Berry and Lai (2014) assert that juveniles live in a highly advanced environment that requires advanced interventions to help in controlling negative behavior. Individual behavioral changes have been based on different variations that are undertaken within the current environment, which is defined by technology.  The use of cognitive-behavioral intervention focuses on learning individual behavior and traits so that it becomes easy to integrate different measures that help improve the level of individual development. Technology has created a profoundly transformed environment that has focused on understanding how the exposure to negative elements influences different children. Understanding child behavior presents an initial stage in developing favorable strategies that improve performance.

Depressed adolescents are more likely to make mistakes in their lives hence require integration of control mechanisms that would be essential in promoting better outcomes. Curry, J. F., & Hersh, J. (2014) identify that building strong relations presents a well-defined system that offers a critical assessment of better mechanisms that change individual-level behavior.  Behavioral, cognitive therapy has been adequately defined with a strong emphasis on improving adolescent behavior. Behaviour is characterized by individual self-efficacy, perception, and the ability to understand relations. Regulation emotions and individual aggression offer a highly engaged system that can help in defining positive change.

The society plays a vital role in shaping the development process of juvenile offenders based on the reintroduction process that is developed. Community members have a different level of preference based on which intervention is adopted. Individuals who focus on revenge prefer the incarceration of juvenile offenders, while individuals in the society who focus on forgivingness and societal integration embrace rehabilitation where offenders learn about positive behavior and development processes that help in decision making.

The rehabilitation programs focus on diversifying change in individual behavior among juvenile delinquents. The specific nature of the programs is aimed to ensure that they achieve important goals, which can ensure that they can understand critical concepts that provide a greater understanding of essential changes in building individual personality and general development. Juvenile delinquents commit different crimes. Thus there is a need to focus on understanding fundamental processes that aid in achieving a higher level of success in controlling the rate of recidivism. The integration of critical concepts provides a more excellent evaluation here individual behavior is assessed. The programs are effectively developed where juvenile offenders undergo a clinical assessment to establish whether other issues require further assessment and inform the decision regarding which project to consider (Lambie & Randell, 2013).

Research integration

Juvenile delinquency has been a major challenge across all states. Despite the countermeasures that have been put in place, there has been no major development in ensuring that there is a strong understanding of better processes that help understand the underlying issues (Manzoni & Schwarzenegger, 2019). Therefore, there was the need to know why juvenile delinquency remains a persisting issue within criminal justice and law enforcement. The level of child development has a better role in defining their future behavior, which is integral in maintaining a highly engaged environment for an improved level of development. When a child has a poor background, it creates a favorable environment where they are involved in crime throughout their childhood as well as adulthood.

The wellbeing of children in the society needs to be protected, considering the major role they need to play in creating a reliable system for change and overall engagement.  Children are influenced by different factors in society, which limits positive development allowing children involved in criminal activity. Children join gangs at the age of 10, which creates a challenging environment for their development. The allure for the fast life has been a significant issue since the majority of these juveniles who are involved in crime are from poor backgrounds (Hoeve et al., 2012). Youth involvement in crime is not a new thing, although currently, the rate of juveniles committing crimes has increased significantly.  The increase can be associated with diverse factors. Studies performed in the past have shown that child social development, which includes both positive and negative behavior, is related to social, community, and interactions. Delinquent and antisocial behavior occurs as a result of a complex interplay of individual social, genetic, and environmental factors that begin at fetal development.

Infant attachment presents a firm understanding of child development, which offers a transparent approach in helping understand different elements that need to be assessed in determining better outcomes. Relationships that are formed during infancy are crucial in defining a more substantial influence on child behavioral and cognitive development.  Relationships at a younger age are essential in transforming a child’s mental wellbeing.  Child development is necessary at the infant stage, where they learn and store. Learning is a continuous process, although during childhood, there are diverse concepts leaned based on the parenting style that is adopted. Having control over what a child learns plays an integral role in creating a harmonious environment where it is possible to maintain a more significant commitment to underlying outcomes.

Defining a higher level of positive attachment means that a child can grow while understanding key elements that help in promoting societal development. Parents should focus on building positive relationships that help improve the existing bond with their children. Not all parents are keen to ensure that there is a strong bond with their children, which creates a different level emphasis on critical measures that help improve positive behavior that is less likely to be associated with delinquency (Curry & Hersh, 2014).

Irrational decision making is a common trait that has been associated with juvenile delinquency. The ability to make better decisions is based on several measures that help identify specific factors that can help children improve their overall commitment to positive traits that will enhance adolescent development. The early adolescence has been associated with an increased understanding of better processes that help define a strong commitment to change. The adverse outcomes that are related to early adolescent are mainly based on general knowledge of critical processes that shape social development. Maintaining a higher understanding of individual mental strength help understand the ability to make decisions while taking into major focus processes that help identify higher outcomes. Integrating better programs in the social environment among adolescents help in shaping their overall commitment to attain more top results.

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