Juvenile Probation Officers ’ Perceptions on Youth Substance Use Varies from Task-Shifting to Family-Based Contingency Management

The majority of justice-involved youth have problems with substance use, but juvenile justice agencies face numerous barriers to providing evidence-based treatments for these youth. Task-shifting is one strategy for increasing access to such treatments. That is, training juvenile probation officers (JPOs) to deliver substance use treatments, such as contingency management (CM) could improve youths ’ motivation and behavioral outcomes. However, probation traditionally emphasizes sanctions over incentives, so JPOs must alter their perspectives to accept protocols such as CM for substance use.

Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - September 20, 2020 Category: Addiction Authors: Danielle S. Rudes, Jill Viglione, Ashli J. Sheidow, Michael R. McCart, Jason E. Chapman, Faye S. Taxman Source Type: research