Lindqvist, Erik - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) 1, pp. 21-27
A recurring theme in evaluations of Swedish residential youth care is that treatment is often unplanned. Using a data set of teenagers placed in youth care in 1991 (NÂ =Â 357), we show that planned treatment -- in the sense of a known expected duration of treatment -- is strongly positively...