Brief Literature Review Adolescent transition: What Works?

Many school-based interventions demonstrated effectiveness in addressing adolescent criminal and antisocial behaviour and related factors. The literature seemed to encourage whole-of-school approaches, involving a combination of niversalist and focused interventions. With respect to family-focused interventions, behavioural and social competency approaches were again identified as consistently effective. In addition, multisystemic therapy was arguably the most effective family-focused approach for intervening with the most chronic and serious offenders.