After ten years: A follow-up study of comprehensive vocationally oriented psychotherapy.

The third in a series of follow-up studies of adolescent delinquent boys successfully treated in a community-based program that combined job placement, remedial education, and psychotherapy shows significantly better overall adjustment in the treated group when compared with untreated controls. The lack of any major change in direction over a decade seems to confirm the significance for later development of identity formation during adolescence, and the need for priority to be given to innovative means of reaching adolescents during the crises that arise in that developmental period.