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University Daily Kansan, December 2, 1982
New treatment yields positive results Program gives help to problem children
By MATT BARTEL Staff Reporter
They are problem children. They cut school, fight with their parents and eventually try to run away, often put in homes for juvenile offenders.
According to the most recent FBI statistics, children under the age of 18 accounted for 20 percent of violent crimes and accounted for a percent of property crime in 1980.
Treatment of the problem has been difficult, but researchers at the University of Kansas are optimistic.
A NEW MODEL for dealing with juvenile delinquents, now being used in 180 homes across the country, is yielding positive results, said Curt Brauckmann, co-director of the Achievement Place Research Project and KU courtesy associate professor of human development.
Braukmann, who works with co-directors Mont Wolf, professor of human development, and Kathryn Ramp-Kingen, associate professor of human development, said the project was part of a five-year, $1.3 million grant from National Institute of Mental Health. The grant will last until June 1984.
Braukmann said the new model, called the teaching-family, was designed to teach problem children, most from 12 to 16 years of age, how to get along with parents, teachers and others. That, he said, is something they have demonstrated they do not know how to do.
THE TEACHING-FAMILY model is based on fairness, Braukmann said. The program uses a variety of techniques, including a point system and self-government by the youths; to reshape their behavior and help keep them from becoming repeat offenders.
Points are awarded for positive behavior and taken away for adverse behavior, he said, and are used to earn trips, television viewing and other benefits. A state statute improved control of themselves may graduate to a merit system.
where no points are involved and privileges are free.
Unlike many group homes, where social workers might come and go in shirts, Achievement Place homes employ married couples who live with a small group of kids and oversee development, much like a family setting.
THE HOMES ARE, sponsored by each community, which sets up a board of directors, Braukmann said. Lawrence has two Achievement Place homes, one for boys, sponsored by the Lawrence Jaycees, and one for girls, sponsored by the Plymouth Congregational Church.
Achievement Place trains the live-in "parents" and works with the natural or foster parents to help improve their effectiveness, he said.
"A good parent is effective because the kid likes him, and wants to be like him." Braukmann said.
THE RESULTS OF a follow-up study done by Achievement Place last spring seem to bear out teaching-family's effectiveness.
The study, which compared group homes for delinquent children that used the teaching-family approach with those that did not, found that the teaching-family yielded significantly fewer repeat offenders.
In the year following their release from treatment, 73 percent of male and 47 percent of female graduates of non-teaching-family homescompleted 57 percent and 27 percent respectively for teaching-family home graduates.
"We're trying to see not only how the kids do, but how we're doing," Braukmann said. "We seem to be having a lot of fun, and more preferred by the kids."
BRAUKMANN SAID many of the old group home programs were ineffective because they attempted to "follow them around," or watch the child's every move rather than work with them. This underlying behavioral problem.
"If you look at the research that's been done, treatment of delinquency looks pretty bleak," he said.
Others claim success with different approaches. Toughlove, in Sell-
erville, Pa., is a crisis program for parents with problem children. It recommends that parent who can no longer speak English behavior get touch with the child
Teresa Quinn, coordinator of Toughlove, said the program was designed to 'get tough' with parents tough on their problem teenagers.
"we all tend to want to rescue kids, but we've got to be tough," she said. "We must make these kids as rescuers as possible for their behavior."
SHE SAID PARENTS who always tried to cover for their children when they got into trouble were probably less worried if children would get into more trouble.
Toward that end, the program advises that parents with problem children withdraw their financial, material and emotional support from the child until he can learn to live within strict guidelines.
Quinn said another goal of the program was to enable children to recognize their own dependence on their families.
Thoughtleve uses support groups made up of other parents who have had similar difficulties with their teenagers, Quinn said.
SHE SAID THE Cause for many of the problems teens faced was the prevalence of drugs, alcohol and other substances that exist during the previous generation.
"When I was in school, cutting school was really a serious thing." Quinn said. "Now, it is no longer any big deal. Our peers are cutting school all the time, so they don't think anything of it."
Social scientists admit that although statistics on juvenile crime are easy to find, the causes are extremely difficult to pinpoint.
"We really don't tell what causes it," said James Whittaker, an expert on juvenile delinquency and professor of criminal justice at the University of Washington in Seattle.
She said problem children were the product of a change in values from one generation to the next.
HE SAID THE treatment of troubled and delinquent children was in an early stage of development, because little information on the effectiveness of any treatment was available. In the course of this study, these issues is similar to other social sciences.
In New Orleans, the problem of juvenile crime prompted the city to pass an 11 p.1n. curfew for people under the age of 18.
"New Orleans is kind of a dangerous city, especially at night," said Ken Cognevich, an officer with the Juvenile Bureau in that city. "Juveniles were committing crimes, and we felt that if we could get them off the street, we might be able to put a dent in the crime rate."
Congevich said the city also assigned officers to local teen "hangouts" during the day in an effort to keep them engaged that he had good results.
"Keeping them in school keeps them out of trouble." he said.
OTHERS, SUCH as Sister Mary Sean, director of the St. Mary of the Angels home for Children in Syosset, N.Y. have gone on record favoring
Ramp-Kirigen of Achievement Place said most juveniles who became delinquents did so because they were not prepared to chance to learn how to deal with others.
"When they meet a policeman, they don't know how to say. 'Here is my ID,' she said. "They are belligerent."
"These kids have never been in environments where they had a chance to learn."
Few studies of the effectiveness of juvenile treatments have been made, he said.
HOWEVER, THE teaching family represents an early attempt to document treatment for future reference of social workers across the country. Whitaker, professor of social work at the University of Washington, said.
talking to other teachers.
"The truly exciting thing about the teaching-family is the literature we've been able to produce," she said.
Ramp-Kirigen agreed.
New York to allow sale of horsemeat to humans
By United Press International
NEW YORK—Horsesmeat, once considered good only for dog food, will be sold on the streets of New York as a delicacy.
City Health Department officials said yesterday they had issued a permit for the first time allowing the sale of horsemeat for human consumption, and the vice president of Chevalean Foods said a cart selling horsemeat sandwiches would be on the streets yesterday.
Chevallean Foods, a division of M & R Packing Co. of Hartford, Conn., has been exporting horsemeat for 10 years to Europe and the Far East, where it is considered a delicacy, said Morris Later, vice president of Chevallean
LATER SAID the venture would be able to overcome Americans' traditional "prejudice and naivete" about horsemeat.
He said he thought the meat's high
nutrition and low cost would attract potential customers.
"We are not trying to hide the fact we are selling horsemeat," he said. "We are proud of what horsemeat has to offer." The nutritional value. We're not ashamed of it.
horsemeat is high in protein and iron and low in calories, cholesterol and cost. Later said. He estimated his horsemeat products cost about 50 percent to 60 percent of what similar beef products sell for.
LATER SAID Chevalean had four vending carts selling steaks and patties made of 85 percent horsemeat and 15 percent choice beef fat. The carts have been selling both charcoal-broiled meat for sandwiches and frozen packages of cheese and patty for about six months in Boston, Hartford and New London, Conn.
The Health Department requires the carts to display conspicuous signs informing consumers the meat being sold is from a horse.
Education students to present multicultural fair in Union
The teaching of students who speak different languages or who are members of minorities can be a difficult problem for instructors, and KU School of Education students who have studied the problem will present the results of their studies today at a multicultural fair.
The fair, sponsored by the School of Education, will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
THE FAIR IS designed to acquaint people with materials used to provide a multicultural education.
going to be a little bit of everything," she said.
The fair will include about 15 exhibits on subjects ranging from child abuse and neglect to the elderly. A film festival will be conducted in one part of the room that overlooks the day, said Jeanine Thayne, grade assistant in the School of Education.
The exhibits are the result of class projects from about 75 graduate and undergraduate students in several curriculum and instruction courses, such as Rodriguez, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, said yesterday.
THIS IS THE first year the fair will be presented, he said. One reason for the fair is the inclusion of a class in multicultural education as part of the five-year program that was introduced to the education school several years ago.
"As I understand it, the exhibits are
169 A music center featuring jazz and ethnic music will also be part of the fair, Kozubowski said.
Rodriguez said he was not sure how many students would be attending, although he was expecting about 60 students from Haskell Indian Junior College and several classes from the University.
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