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- Title
Andrei's Private Logic: The Developmental Audit as a Life Line.
- Authors
Freado, Mark D.; Heckenlaible-Gotto, Myra J.
- Abstract
This article describes an evaluation conducted with a juvenile who was facing transfer into the adult system after an encounter with law enforcement officers. Adopted at age one from an Eastern European orphanage, Andrei experienced conflict, bringing him into contact with special education, mental health, and juvenile authorities. While there were bright spots in his school and work history, a common theme in diagnostic records was a focus on deficits which obscured his strengths and resilience. Facing a court hearing, Andrei's family secured an independent evaluation. This Developmental Audit® provided a strikingly different view of the boy who was little known beyond his large box of case files documenting failed interventions.
- Subjects
ADOPTED children; TEENAGERS; JUVENILE delinquency; SPECIAL education; COMPETENCY assessment (Law); BEHAVIOR disorders in adolescence; BEHAVIORAL assessment; TRIALS (Law); CHILD psychology
- Publication
Reclaiming Children & Youth, 2006, Vol 15, Issue 3, p132
- ISSN
1089-5701
- Publication type
Article