Juvenile Corrections Center

Text:  Positive Peer Culture, by Vorath and Bendtro

This class offers a few students a rather unique opportunity to get real-life experience observing a specific population of juveniles.  Each student is expected to read the text which outlines the format of treatment for the young men and women incarcerated at the Juvenile Corrections Center in St. Anthony, Idaho.

In addition, intern students will spend eight hours (2:00 - 7:00 on Tuesday and 4:00 - 7:00 on Thursday) per week at the JCC, observing how the program operates.  While the interns will not provide any direct therapeutic or rehabilitative function, they will become very well acquainted with the various staff positions and administrative functioning of this institution.  Each week the interns will spend time meeting with the on-site supervisor, "shadow" the various professionals to see their job duties, eat supper with the students at the JCC, and watch group therapy with the group to whom the intern is assigned.

Finally, the interns will meet as a group with the BYU-I professor for one hour per week to process the experience they are having at JCC.

This class places a great deal of responsibility on each intern and the group of interns as a whole to be accountable and dutiful in the fulfillment of assignments and tasks.  Each intern is under supervision at all times and is expected to act in a mature and professional manner.

Recommended prerequisites: Psychology 455, Sociology 383.

Contact:  Dr. Yohan Delton
Limit:  Four interns per semester