Treating Chronic Juvenile Offenders: Advances Made Through the Oregon Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Model

Chamberlain, who helped develop the Oregon Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) model, has written a wide- ranging volume on the model that will be useful to those in law and law enforcement as well as the clinicians and administrators of community programs. The theory and aims of the program, including the research base that informed its tenets, are described as an introduction to the detailed discussion of the model, its implementation and outcomes that follows. Among those whose treatment is described are girls with severe anti-social behavior and an adaptation of the MTFC for preschoolers in foster care. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)