The purpose of this article is to show the following: (a) Over a third of incarcerated delinquents are handicapped, needing special education treatment; (b) parallel trends to deinstitutionalize delinquents and to develop alternatives to public school for behaviorally disordered youths are putting some individuals from each category in the same alternative settings; (c) several other stress inducing societal trends are likely to increase the number of these youths; (d) the state of research in the field is poor (particularly lacking in long term evaluations); and (e) the belief that new prosocial behaviors inculcated (especially) by short term treatments will persist without subsequent changed social psychological support for clients is likely to be chimerical.
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