Adolescents and Fire Setting

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In this article the writer looks at a case study of an adolescent with a history of arson. The paper discusses intervention programs for adolescents. Based upon the best evidence identified and cited by Zipper, Wilcox, and Brett, the writer points out that the proposed plan of action should consist of treatment, medication, and therapy for TC's Conduct Disorder, ADD, Combined Type and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The writer notes that this supports the intervention in the case situation, and is the best approach available considering TC's discouraging history of fire setting.

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"Paul Zipper and David K. Wilcox conducted the study examined in the article, "Juvenile Arson: The Importance of Early Intervention." This article is empirically based, but relied as well upon authoritative input from social services professionals, law enforcement officials, criminal justice system personnel, and researchers. The primary study subjects were youth from the third to eighth grades in fifteen school districts in Oregon. Zipper and Wilcox do not specify in the article how many subjects were in the study sample. The participants in the study sample were selected at random."

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